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Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:43 am
by Suzana
For those that may be interested, and can read the squiggles.

Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet

"The 2,000-year-old scrolls, found in the late 1940s in caves near the Dead Sea east of Jerusalem, contain the earliest known copies of every book of the Hebrew Bible (missing only the Book of Esther), as well as apocryphal texts and descriptions of rituals of a Jewish sect at the time of Jesus. The texts, most of them on parchment but some on papyrus, date from the third century B.C. to the first century A.D."

Re: Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:57 am
by RickC
Hi Sue, thanks for the news, :), ('too bad I can't read Hebrew, :cry: )....
I couldn't get your link to work but found the story here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/
DSS are fascinating! & I'm glad most are in English these days....
~ shalom ~