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Posted on 09/26/2011 2:45:30 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
JERUSALEM — Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum and web giant Google.
The appearance of five of the most important Dead Sea scrolls on the Internet is part of a broader attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts — who were once criticized for allowing them to be monopolized by small circles of scholars — to make them available to anyone with a computer.
See msnbc.com's PhotoBlog for more Dead Sea Scroll photos. Adolfo Roitman Sebastian Scheiner / AP Dr. Adolfo Roitman on Monday presents a part of the Isaiah Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, inside the vault of the Shrine of the Book building at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The scrolls include the biblical Book of Isaiah, the manuscript known as the Temple Scroll, and three others. Surfers can search high-resolution images of the scrolls for specific passages, zoom in and out, and translate verses into English.
The originals are kept in a secured vault in a Jerusalem building constructed specifically to house the scrolls. Access requires at least three different keys, a magnetic card and a secret code.
The five scrolls are among those purchased by Israeli researchers between 1947 and 1967 from antiquities dealers, having first been found by Bedouin shepherds in the Judaean Desert.
The scrolls, considered by many to be the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century, are thought to have been written or collected by an ascetic Jewish sect.....
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Anyway, here's the link to the web site. I'm definitely bookmarking it: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
The 450 rolls of film had been assembled before the war for a bold venture: a study of the evolution of the Quran, the text Muslims view as the verbatim transcript of God's word. The wartime destruction made the project "outright impossible," Mr. Spitaler wrote in the 1970s. .Mr. Spitaler was lying. The cache of photos survived, and he was sitting on it all along. The truth is only now dribbling out to scholars -- and a Quran research project buried for more than 60 years has risen from the grave. "He pretended it disappeared. He wanted to be rid of it," says Angelika Neuwirth, a former pupil and protégée of the late Mr. Spitaler. Academics who worked with Mr. Spitaler, a powerful figure in postwar German scholarship who died in 2003, have been left guessing why he squirreled away the unusual trove for so long . . ."Unveil this documented history once and for ALL.
I’ve studied quite a bit of material about the scrolls and read the translations of the scrolls themselves. They are a great world treasure.
They show no doubt how the Quran was written and rewritten by many different people. And that the Quran was always just a political terrorist killing machine made into a “religion” by propaganda.
Very interesting! Thanks for the link!
Ping!!!
Uhhh. The "custodians" changed beginning in 1967. And there was quite a bit of political momentum to overcome.
ML/NJ
I have heard that the older manuscripts have at their end Mohammed’s Jewish secretary’s monogram, a statement in Hebrew to the effect that “all you have read in this book is nonsense.” In later manuscrips, some enterprising scribe must have also learned Hebrew, and once he learned the monogram’s meaning, didn’t copy it.
Actually, they didn’t. The Israel National Museum had custody of its intact scrolls, and the Ecole Biblique still had de facto control over the Rockefeller Museum’s trove of fragments, and Father DeVaux was not sharing or publishing. The contents of Cave IV finally saw the light of public scrutiny in 1992, I think.
Digital Dead Sea Scrolls - http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/
From your link:
...”A scholar in northern Germany writes under the pseudonym of Christoph Luxenberg because, he says, his controversial views on the Quran risk provoking Muslims. He claims that chunks of it were written not in Arabic but in another ancient language, Syriac. [Emphasis mine-texokie:]THE ‘VIRGINS’ PROMISED BY THE QURAN TO ISLAMIC MARTYRS, HE ASSERTS, ARE IN FACT ONLY ‘GRAPES.’”
Also from the article:”Muslims, by contrast, view the Quran as the literal word of God. Questioning the Quran “is like telling a Christian that Jesus was gay,” says Abdou Filali-Ansary, a Moroccan scholar.”
Wait! they’ve done that!
THis is fascinating! German Arabic scholars after WWII seemed to all have strong ties to the NAZIs.
Who should be called on to unveil the documents?...and would they listen?
Until this guarded archive is freely examined and openly discussed, simply repost the link to the story of this archive’s existence. The more people that are aware of this archive’s existence, the better the chances of examining the supposedly sacred ancient texts. We all should become that proverbial squeaky wheel. Pass it on!
in fact, by reading it in Syriac, they say that the Koran is more like an Arian writing.
Wow! Not surprised at all!
Those originally in possession of the Dead Sea Scrolls refused to share the information (like a bunch of babies not sharing thier new toy). But then one of them gave an outsider what amounts to basically a concordance which listed the order of each word, they guy wrote a program to reproduce the text from that and published, and those the jig was up. The only reason we ever got access to them was this. Ya, it angers me.
The dead sea scrolls contain a complete copy of the Book of Isaiah which clear predicts Christ on the cross in chapter 53, the accusation was always that it was added after the fact, but the Dead Sea Scolls have the complete book, and it predates Christ by hundreds of years, not only that, but it’s word for world accurate with our current text, showing how carefully the word was preserved.
Have done just that today wtd!
Am very exccited about seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls....one video on the site takes you into the room where the Isiah scroll is housed and he actually shows the scroll....amazing to see this in it's protected environment.
Huge thanks for those who have linked and written comments about.
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