[Coco] Re: So far OT I'm in the Twilight Zone (Was: Republishing Magazines)

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello jdaggett at gate.net


> Correction 
> 
> The Dead Sea scrolls by default are property of the Jordanian Office of
> Antiquities. When found, that area was TransJordan. The origianl 7 scrolls
> are claimed by Jordan. Part of the reason translation started so slow was
> who translated them had to be settled before work could begin. Currently
> the Office of Antiquities of Israel now controls digs and archeaological
> expeditions in the region.
> 
> There is no great mysteries or secret meanings or what ever. If anything
> there are more questions as to who the Essenes were and the purpose of
> Qumran community. Some of the scrolls gives us a better understanding of
> the greater diversity of Judiahism in the period between 200 BCE and 100
> CE. Most of the completed material has now been copied onto CDs and have
> been available to researchers for over a decade now. I believe that a set
> of CDs are available for purchase or was to be made available for purchase
> in 2002.
> 
> There is still many fragmanets and parrtial scrolls that still need
> piecign together like a jigsaw puzzle. In all there are maybe twenty
> scrolls of any significant religious benefit. The prize of the collection
> was the Isaiah Scroll. Believe to have been pinned around 200 BCE, is the
> oldest copy of the the Book of Isaiah known. It is a near complete and
> exact copy of a more modern Massoretic copy dating from about 400 CE.

Yeah it may *REALLY* far off topic, but it's *very* interesting reading 8-).

Regards
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