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To: Alouette

When will we get the interpretation of the scrolls? I am no Hebrew scholar. Photos of the scrolls, no matter what quality, would not help me.


9 posted on 08/26/2008 10:13:31 AM PDT by jonrick46
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When will we get the interpretation of the scrolls?
Already done ...

11 posted on 08/26/2008 10:22:49 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: jonrick46

Several weeks ago, a news release indicated that ultimately all of the photos of the scrolls would be available on the internet within a year or so, but that some of the photos would be released (I want to say) within about 6 months. I may have all the times screwed up, but the photos will be released over about a year or so.


13 posted on 08/26/2008 10:26:31 AM PDT by Stayfree (***************************************IF IT IS LEFT, IT CAN'T BE RIGHT!!)
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To: jonrick46
When will we get the interpretation of the scrolls?

I truly hope that you mean "translations", not interpretations; therein is where all mischief lies: interpretation can be innocent or profoundly evil, depending on the perspective.

Take the Hadith, as the most currently important evil example...

As for translations, there are many, among which is The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, by Geza Vermes, Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1997, ISBN 0-7139-9131-3

24 posted on 08/26/2008 11:48:28 AM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: jonrick46
When will we get the interpretation of the scrolls? I am no Hebrew scholar. Photos of the scrolls, no matter what quality, would not help me.
It's my recollection that there was an announcement that when the scrolls were found and the research into their contents was organized, the scrolls were divvied up among scholars who were expected to publish their findings. The trouble turned out to be that the work of putting together all the bits and fragments and interpreting the scrolls turned out to be an order of magnitude more of a project than originally assumed - so instead of getting the results after a few years we have scholars spending their professional lifetimes and still not being ready to publish.

26 posted on 08/26/2008 12:08:41 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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