Thanks BenLurkin. Good topic to ping the weekly Digest list as well.
Posted on 03/24/2018 5:13:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
The fragment of the ancient Jewish text is from the Genesis Apocryphon.
Seventy years after its discovery in the Judean Desert, a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls is going on display for the first time at Jerusalem’s Israel Museum.
The Genesis Apocryphon was the first of seven Dead Sea Scrolls making up a collection of Jewish texts dating back to the 1st century B.C. that were found in caves on the West Bank in the 1940s and 1950s. It is the only existing copy of an ancient text that elaborates on the stories of the first book of the Bible.
“This is the only copy of this book on Earth,” said Adolfo Roitman, curator of the Israel Museum’s Shrine of the Book, according to an AP report.
The parchment tells the story of Noah’s Ark “alighting on the peaks of Mount Ararat after the fabled flood. Noah tells how he ‘atoned for all the earth in its entirety’ by offering up various animal sacrifices,” reported AP.
The text’s Aramaic verses are unusual in that they are written in the first person. They also describe the lives of Abraham, Enoch, and Lamech, characters from Genesis.
“In some way what we have are parallel stories that we don’t have in the Hebrew Bible, in which the patriarchs are presented in different ways than the ways we have today in the Pentateuch,” Roitman said.
Visitors to the museum can study the delicate parchment by pressing a button that illuminates it for 30 seconds in order to protect it from direct light.
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
Interesting. If they have translated it and know what it says, a transcript would be nice.
The first line is, “Don’t tolerate camera hoggs.”
The **only** copy?
Please, someone, photograph that document so there can be more than **one** copy.
Only one article available? Moslem kooks want to take care of it.
That first sentence is a doozy!
You tube ken Johnson for all the info
“How long can you tread water?”
“Yeah well get it out of my driveway”
There is a five-volume collection called ‘The Midrash Says’ which is intended to be fluidly readable rather than a scholarly treatment. There are lots of similar doozies in that collection!
Rabbi Moshe Weissman is the listed author.
[… …missing first 2 lines, except for last two words …] and not for length […… ……] for during the days of Yared, my father [… … … …] sons [… …. … … … … …] and to you they will be [… … …] upon the whole of the earth [… … …] my land to this sea (?) [… … …] earth [… …] earth […] And now, go [… …] truthfully, not with lies [… … … … … …] he divided all the earth [… … 7 lines missing …] and for their labor […4-5 lines missing …].
“All green of skin... 800 centuries ago, their bodily fluids include the birth of half-breeds. For the fundamental truth self-determination of the cosmos, for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.”
Thanks BenLurkin. Good topic to ping the weekly Digest list as well.
Wow, that is something. Brings to mind the Book of Enoch.
Thanks!
It is amazing how stupid 50-IQ desert Muslims destroyed much of the Dead Sea documents.
Islam is the most destructive force to world progress.
bookmarked
bttt
I did a global search for "Ham" -- and got:
COLUMN 12 "[And the sons of Ham were Kush, Mitzrai]n, Put, and Canaan, as well as seven daughters." vacat
COLUMN 17: "And Yaphet divided among his sons. He gave first to Gomer (the land) in the north until it reaches the Tina River. And after him, (he gave) to Magog, and after him to Madai, and after him to Yavan (he gave) all the islands next to Lud (i.e., Lydia), and (what was) between the inlet next to Lud and the second inlet to Tubal [… …] in the land, and to Meshek the sea [… …] and to Tiras […] four [… … …] inlet of the sea that lies next to the portion of the descendants of Ham [… … …]" vacat
COLUMN 19: "A famine took place throughout all this land, but I heard that grai[n] wa[s avail]able in Egypt. So I moved to [enter] the land of Egypt [ … … … ] I reache[d] the Carmona River, one of the branches of the river [ … … ]. Now we [ … ] our land, and I [cro]ssed the seven branches of this river which [ … … … ]. Now we passed out of our land and entered the land of the children of Ham, the land of Egypt." vacat
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The Muzzies ain't gonna like this!
I found zero mention of Ham or his descendants (specifically, Canaan in any place other than Egypt.
That means no Muzzie claim to the site of the Al Aqsa Mosque -- or any claim of the so-called, "Palestinians" anywhere in the Levant! Only in Egypt!
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IMO, Israel better build a fortress protecting a very deep bunker to protect this scroll...
OP courtesy ping to #19...
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