LDS site.
Is it legit, or is it LDS propaganda?
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.
I listened to it. Had to laugh when he was stating that some of the scrolls had the rules of the community.
Apparantly they had a communial meal together every day(or week cant remember).
Only the worthy were allowed to attend.
If you were found guilty of being a fool, you couldn’t attend for 30 days. Guess Congress would all be skinny as a rail if they had that rule.
Enjoy
Special software is being used to reconstruct shredded Stasi documents.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/18/shredded_stasi_documents_could/
Is there a text site for we who are hampered by dial-up?
Resty, the video is informative and interesting!... The essence of the presentation is that DNA is helping to collate fragment portions of the scrolls. Many pieces of scrolls are now to be sorted into categories based upon DNA which shows the parchments are from the same animal thus the pieces belong together but still have to be put together for text, like a puzzle once they are placed into a grouping.
Informative video! Nice application of DNA PCR marking and duplication. Still, puzzle fanatics can have a field day since there are so many fragments to collate.
I am hoping to get to the exhibit in San Diego.
Papyrus Bar Kokhba 44—the Alma Scroll
5/6Heb 44
Scroll type: Simple deed
Date: 28 Marheshvan, Year 3 of Revolt (134 CE)
Language: Hebrew
Discovered: Cave of the Letters, Nahal Hever, 1961
This scroll demonstrates that people outside the Qumran community also hid scrolls in the mudstone caves. It is a lease agreement, which dates to 134 CE, after the destruction of the Qumran settlement by Roman soldiers. It describes a transaction for land previously owned by the government of Simeon Bar Kosiba (Bar Kokhba); leader of the second Jewish Revolt against the Romans (132-135 CE). The document mentions Bar Kokhba by name and as the “Prince of Israel,” a historical reference to his brief tenure as leader in this period.
Latter-day Saints find this scroll of particular interest, because it specifies “Alma son of Judah” as one of the people involved in the agreement on the fourth line and at the bottom of the document. This text contains the oldest known occurrence of the name “Alma” outside of the Book of Mormon.