DEAD SEA SCROLLS: THREAT TO CHRISTIANITY?

http://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/DEADSEA.HTM ^ | Unknown | Fr. William Most

[stfassisi]

Again, Hershel Shanks commented that now the scrolls have been released, with much help from Catholic scholars, it was "without the slightest shake of or shock to the church's foundations."

[stfassisi]

Ping!

[ClearCase_guy]

Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

Their book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" was basically re-packaged and printed as "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown.

If Baigent and Leigh say the Dead Sea Scrolls will damage Christianity, then I guess I have to believe them! [/heavy sarcasm]

[ml/nj]

He said more than one interpretation of the text is possible.

The right one and the wrong one?

ML/NJ

[Carolina]

Thanks for the ping.

[El Cid]

Yeah, like I'm going to believe some writings (stashed away in a cave for 2 millennia) from some First Century recluse hippies over the Received Text - the Living Word...

The Dead Sea scrolls contain interesting stuff, no doubt, but they aren't Scripture - and are more useful for anthropological studies than for theology.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The Palestinian outlook they describe was (p. 10) "Zealot, engaging, xenophobic and apocalyptic".

Nothing ever changes, does it? ;)

[Alex Murphy]

For nearly 2500 words, the article discusses nothing but the scrolls, and then the author switches gears from out of the blue...

But it is time to come to the essential flaw in the work on Eisenman and Wise: The basic trouble is that they have bought the tragic mistake of Martin Luther, who thought Paul meant we can violate the law freely with impunity. So Eisenman and Wise call Paul's thought "antinomian" (p. 10).

Luther really was antinomian, Paul was not: Cf. Luther's Epistle of August 1 1521 (Luther's Works, American Edition 48. 282: "Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly. . . . No sin will separate us from the Lamb, even though we commit fornication and murder a thousand times a day."

Like a Trojan Horse, the article starts off in one direction, but once inside the gates it reveals it's actual agenda....

[Publius6961]

The right one and the wrong one?

The right one and many wrong ones?

The long and educational article underscores one of the conundrums of written history (as also in Aztec and Egyptian hyeroglyphics) where vowels must be assumed, yielding as many different words as there are vowels in all their permutations.
Working with fragments which can be combined in many different orders simply compounds the problem.

Announcing conclusive evidence of anything in view of the above causes me to question the judgement of many of these "scholars".

[Dr. Eckleburg]

What a peculiar article. It damns the Dead Sea Scrolls as extra-Scriptural (rightly, since they are not the Received Text, as El Cid noted), but ultimately comes to this conclusion for the wrong reason (somehow it's Luther's fault -- again.)

1947 was a very peculiar year. Lots of strange "sightings" going on all over the place. Lots of false leads.

[redgolum]

Actually, there was a lot more concern that the Scrolls followed the LXX more than other Hebrew texts. In fact, that has led a few to say the scrolls are forgoes as they "could not have been Jewish texts" because in places they follow the LXX (with the vowel marks).

[FourtySeven]

1947 was a very peculiar year. Lots of strange "sightings" going on all over the place. Lots of false leads.

Indeed.

;-)

[FourtySeven]

Very interesting EWTN find, thanks for posting it!

[Logophile]

Allegro had been a member of the scroll team, the only one to publish his work early. But he was an avowed agnostic. His book, The Sacred Mushroom, said Jesus never really existed, he was only an image developed by Christians under the influence of a hallucinating drug, psilocybin.

I wonder whether Allegro wrote his book under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug.

[dangus]

>> Again, Hershel Shanks commented that now the scrolls have been released, with much help from Catholic scholars, it was "without the slightest shake of or shock to the church's foundations." <<

If anything, the Dead Sea Scrolls invalidated many of critical scholars objections to the bible. The fact that nothing challenges Christianity is also quite remarkable in itself.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Again, Hershel Shanks commented that now the scrolls have been released, with much help from Catholic scholars, it was "without the slightest shake of or shock to the church's foundations." ****

It seems that everything they "find" is supposerd to shake the church, but doesn't.
Maybe it is that ROCK foundation.

[MHGinTN]

"Like a Trojan Horse, the article starts off in one direction, but once inside the gates it reveals it's actual agenda." It's that time, don'tchaknow. The servants to antiChrist will be coming out of the woodwork, even challenging American democrats for the lead.

[Alex Murphy]

The servants to antiChrist will be coming out of the woodwork, even challenging American democrats for the lead.

????

[MHGinTN]

The democrats show their eagerness to serve the anti-Christ with their malignancies in morality ... they will be racing nonpolitical servants for the lead to serve their father, a murderer from the start.

[LiteKeeper]

Do they think, after 2000 years, a strange interpretation of some scrolls will "destroy" Christianity? Can anyone spell "wishful thinking?"