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Dead Sea Scrolls’ Rare Account of Noah Exhibited for First Time
Aleteia ^
| 3/22/18
| Zelda Caldwell
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 Jerusalems 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 Museums Shrine of the Book, according to an AP report.
The parchment tells the story of Noahs 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 texts 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 dont 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.
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TOPICS: Current Events; History; Judaism
KEYWORDS: 300manyearsoflabor; ancientnavigation; deadseascrolls; epigraphyandlanguage; genesisapocryphon; godsgravesglyphs; israel; navigation; noah; noahsarc; noahsark; noahsmalarkey; qumran
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To: bgill
i thought these were shown to be a hoax
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03/24/2018 10:47:03 PM PDT
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vooch
(America First Drain the Swamp)
To: TXnMA
:^)
Right now I feel like some brisket pastrami, rather than Ham.
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03/25/2018 12:14:23 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...
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03/25/2018 6:47:01 AM PDT
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bitt
(The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
To: bitt
Tnx for the ping on this. I am on my Kindle at WalMart, will have to get to my DSS files on home ‘puter. Genesis Apocryphon noted for too little text available.
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posted on
03/25/2018 7:07:46 AM PDT
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Bob Ireland
(The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
To: BenLurkin
Oh, Lord... I have almost laughed up breakfast!
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posted on
03/25/2018 7:23:40 AM PDT
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Bob Ireland
(The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/25/2018 7:42:31 AM PDT
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SirLurkedalot
(10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
To: fidelis
Suppose they made it all up?
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posted on
03/25/2018 7:48:23 AM PDT
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GingisK
To: marshmallow
But I thought no one ever actually believed in Noah until American Fundamentalists began reacting to Darwin? Doesn't everyone else claim that their churches
never believed those stories in Genesis to begin with?
Someone is lying.
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03/25/2018 7:52:17 AM PDT
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Zionist Conspirator
(Vegam Yehudah tillachem biYrushalayim . . . .)
To: jjotto; BenLurkin
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03/25/2018 8:31:01 AM PDT
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Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: SunkenCiv; marshmallow; bitt
Tales of the Patriarchs - 1QapGen = 1Q20
![](http://quicksilver899.com/Bible_Mysteries/Numbers/12Patr.jpg)
Bodleian Library MS. Douce211 - The twelve tribes of Israel; Author: Guyart Desmoulins; Petrus Comestor
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03/25/2018 11:28:04 AM PDT
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Bob Ireland
(The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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