[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