[Eleutheria5]

Like all journalists, Matti Friedman is doing a superficial job and mixing theories like a kid with finger paints. I suggest for a deeper understanding of the conflicting theories, I suggest The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh (1991, ISBN 0-671-73454-7).

Anyway, here's the link to the web site. I'm definitely bookmarking it: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

[wtd]

Wonderful use of this technology giving these ancient manuscripts mass exposure. Now, demand access to the recently recovered Munich “lost archive” of 450 rolls of film of ancient manuscripts of the Quran held in Germany since WWII – and open them up to equal scholarly scrutiny. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120008793352784631.html

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.

[DonaldC]

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.

[Outlaw Woman]

Ping!!!

[ml/nj]

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

Uhhh. The "custodians" changed beginning in 1967. And there was quite a bit of political momentum to overcome.

ML/NJ

[anonsquared]

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls - http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

[Scythian]

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.

[RitchieAprile]

this calls for a special search engine:

[AdmSmith]

A lot of interesting info will be revealed.

related documents
“Ancient” Syriac bible found in Cyprus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2179793/posts

Low profile for German Koran challenger

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1277705/posts

The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran: A Contribution to the Decoding of the Language of the Koran
Christoph Luxenberg
http://www.amazon.com/Syro-Aramaic-Reading-Koran-Contribution-Decoding/dp/3899300882

Review:
Christoph Luxenberg (ps.) Die syro-aramaeische Lesart des Koran; Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Qur'ansprache.

http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol6No1/HV6N1PRPhenixHorn.html

Egyptian Gov. Publication: Questioning the Sanctity of Jerusalem in Islam (MEMRI)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994949/posts

[.30Carbine]

The Great Isaiah Scroll bump!