Prof explores journey of Dead Sea Scrolls

Canadian Jewish News ^ | Thursday, June 11, 2009 | Sheri Shefa

[SunkenCiv]

Israeli archeologist and professor Dan Bahat... a lecturer in the Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology department at Bar-Ilan University and the former district archeologist for Jerusalem, addressed hundreds who gathered at Beth Tikvah Synagogue on June 3... "When I speak about the caves in the Judean desert where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, actually, all the scrolls we're talking about come from 11 caves only," Bahat said. He said the discovery of the first scrolls in 1947 was made on Nov. 29 -- the day the United Nations adopted the Partition Plan for Palestine... all that was yielded were 900 scrolls, of which 20 are practically intact while all the others are fragments... An Israeli professor made an inexpensive deal to purchase the three scrolls from the antiquities dealer in Bethlehem, but four other scrolls ended up with another dealer at the Syrian Jacobite Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem... the scrolls come from two distinct periods -- from the Second Temple period that ended in 70 CE, and from the era of Bar Kochba, the Jewish leader who led a revolt against the Roman Empire to establish a Jewish state, around 135 CE... "The discovery at Masada is more important from the point of view of dating than any other because the ones that came from the caves, some argue that they are not from the Second Temple period, that they are medieval, but when the same scrolls are being found at Masada… there is no more question. It's from 70 CE and that's the end," Bahat said.

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[Koracan]

The Teutonic Barbarians living in the forests treated each other with more respect than the “civilized” Roman slave society and they kicked them out in the Teutoburger Wald battle .
What can 2000 year old Scrolls teach us, except to reinforce the century old Master - Slave behavior.

[Tainan]

Just for starters:
"He said that other scrolls helped them learn about “the Dead Sea Scrolls people,” that there was a war between those who were considered the “Sons of Light” and those who were considered the “Sons of Darkness.”

And, as an added bonus, it documents and established a historical Jewish presence as a developed society in lands and cities that are being claimed by late-coming interlopers who wish to re-write history.
Plus a great deal more.

[Unam Sanctam]

For one thing, we can see the earliest Hebrew manuscripts in existence for certain books of the Old Testament, predating the canonization of the Masoretic Hebrew text in the early centuries A.D. This is a great boon to Biblical textual criticism.

[SunkenCiv]

The Romans didn’t write the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Romans went back over the Rhine and stayed there for centuries, and what they didn’t colonize they turned into trading partners and paid clients; meanwhile the Germanic mastermind of the plot was later killed by his respectful friends and neighbors.

Ancient Roman battlefield excavated in Lower Saxony[Germany]
The Local | 11 Dec 2008 | Kerstin von Glowacki
Posted on 12/12/2008 1:06:36 PM PST by BGHater
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2147810/posts

[wildbill]

YAWN for Yahweh!

We’ve been hearing about these scrolls for decades but I can’t remember a single significant finding that has come from them, despite all the hoohah and jealous guarding of them from scholars who aren’t on the “A” list.

[SunkenCiv]

The major finding is that the continuously surviving (and translated and transliterated and paraphrased) versions of the Scriptures are very nearly unchanged since the DSS were secreted in those jars in the caves.

Google

[Koracan]

What can come from tomorrows Vacuum of space and time?,
except to start everyday anew and live in, or near, the present.
The reality of "Past" might have something to tell us, but do not know what or if it is any good.
The scrolls - someone cooked it up 2000 years ago, not sure if it pays my rent next month.