Posted on 10/03/2016 2:12:22 PM PDT by redleghunter
JERUSALEM (AP) — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist's storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form.
The passages from the Book of Leviticus, scholars say, offer the first physical evidence of what has long been believed: that the version of the Hebrew Bible used today goes back 2,000 years.
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God's word is preserved.
Imagine that......
“Eat at Lot’s - salt included.”
I love it! :-)
This truly is exciting -— and inspiring.
How wonderful that these skillful sleuths have so stunningly confirmed the integrity of God’s Word!
Google helped fund the technology that allowed this discovery.
Double win.
Turns out it was a recipe book.
The Book of Jewish Food
The DSS are actually quite close in text to today’s, bible - but this scroll they say is a perfect correspondence. Amazing !
“An error of a single letter, ornamentation, or symbol of the 304,805 stylized letters that make up the Hebrew Torah text renders a Torah scroll unfit for use, hence a special skill is required and a scroll takes considerable time to write and check.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
Apparently yes - the Biblical food laws are in Leviticus 11 ( and Deuteronomy 14).
“Price categories vary from $24,000 - $55,000; the cost is determined by the consistency and beauty of the Ktav(script). All of our Torah Scrolls are 100% Kosher and acceptable irrelevant of price.”
http://www.tiferes.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=8
Always has been....always will be!
There are many scholars who consider the bible like any other book, that it would have bad translations on top of bad translations and over time be vastly different today than it was in the ancient past. They fail to recognize (in my opinion) that the bible is different than other books, that there are men and women over millenia that have dedicated their entire lives to understanding it, knowing it, preaching it. It's not some novel or play that was translated overnight to get a quickie paperback edition onto international shelves. Any translations done would have been made by extremely diligent and dedicated scholars, and translations would have been scrutinized by the brightest minds of the times. It was and is, after all, their most sacred text.
So does that mean that mistranslations could never occur? No, they could and did in spots, mostly due to the ambiguous nature of old hebrew. However the modern scholar thinks that it would be vastly different rather than subtly so. This says "no, not at all".
I'm wondering if they'll fine more scrolls of the bible...
The Joy of Jewish Cooking volume 6...copywrited 2009 BC...
“Drink more Ovaltine.”
Drink your Ovaltine.
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