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| Scholar Claims Dead Sea Scrolls 'Authors' Never Existed |
| 2009-03-16 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 Except that haven't the archeologists recently found the common latrines they used, just as described in scrolls containing rules of behaviour... including the remnants of the intestinal worms passed around because they left their outside? (Ick) This is about as valid as those who claim that Jesus Christ never existed because the only mention of him outside the New Testament is a statement in Josephus that was clearly inserted by the early Church Fathers. Absence of evidence in never evidence of absence, which no doubt drives intelligence types to the edge of madness at times. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-16 23:36 |
| #4 Thats not her argument, however right or wrong she may be. She says that these were probably part of a library from Jerusalem taken and hiden away by an exiled clan of priests. That does not reduce their authenticity or religious significance. She does not impugn the authorship of the texts, she just claims that there was no Essene community because there are no texts in the stash that refer to the internal affairs of the Essenes - no minutes of meetings, community rules, bake-sale fliers, etc. |
| Posted by: buwaya 2009-03-16 23:35 |
| #3 Scholar indeed...nobody wrote it? Brilliant! |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2009-03-16 22:39 |
| #2 unless you're Joe Biden |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-03-16 22:14 |
| #1 "the Essenes make no mention of themselves in the 900 scrolls found by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947 in the caves of Qumran, near the Dead Sea." The Essenes nor anyone else of that period were the "authors". The authors were prophets hundreds and thousands of years before. And when you copy things, you don't sign YOUR name to it. |
| Posted by: Shavins Big Foot8769 2009-03-16 22:04 |