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

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Yeah

It is one of my four or five favorite subjects. History and ancient biblical texts are 
fascinating and yes is a bitoff topic. It is interesting to study the beginnings of 
religions that started almost 2000 years ago and are now still with us. Some real 
interesting debates went on in the early formation of Christianity as to doctrine and 
theology. Many think that it emerged smoothly and united. Well it did not. Major 
conflicts existed almost from the beginning and the actual first slpit of the Christian 
Church came around the 5th century when the Eastern Orthodoc Church and the 
Catholic Church split. The Eastern Orthodox Church is made up of the Russian, 
Greek, Armenian Orthodox and a few others that remain. While getting my BSEE I 
had to take some advance social science courses and the college that I attended 
had some religion courses so I found them more interesting than studying 
evolutionary practices of monkees and such. They were an easy "A" also. Helped 
the old GPA. 


james

On 28 Dec 2003 at 16:53, Richard E. Crislip wrote:

> 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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