[vetsvette]

I have no idea if this is true or not, but I read through many translations of the scrolls when I was in Vietnam many years ago and they gave me an entirely new view of the role that Constantine played in the canonization of the Bible. The Dead Sea Scrolls are worth more than a casual browse for any Christian.

[mnehring]

It also really does make you read the Old Testament differently. To think that phrases like ‘Cloud’ and ‘Pillar of Fire’ were actually priestly titles, as well as having an insight as to what many of the rituals mean, it illuminates a lot of the early Word.

[ovrtaxt]

You ever read the Book of Enoch? Some very cool stuff there.

Here’s a neat site on angelic powers as depicted in ancient docs: http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/