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[Sacajaweau]

I believe many, many archeologists do not think out of the box....It looks like they are...but really, they've made their own little box with their own little scripts and rarely yield to another. Turin is a good example.

The moral of the story??

GRANT MONEY is forever.

I also believe that perhaps 75 % of these diggers have a side market.

[HearMe]

If they were rational human beings this would cause some severe cognitive dissonance among the Palestinians.

On the one hand they demand they they are the legitimate owners of the Dead Sea Scrolls and on the other hand they deny the Jewish Temple or Jewish civilization ever existed in the area.

But then if they were rational human beings, there would be peace.

[Texas Fossil]

"Gone is the Ark of the Covenant. We're never going to find Noah's Ark, the Holy Grail.

Possibly, but we do not yet know for sure. Only God knows that. Makes me wonder about the writer.

[Texas Fossil]

UCLA's Cargill agrees with Schiffman

Ohh! UCLA that might explain some things.

[CholeraJoe]

The Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia,

and the Holy Grail is buried on Oak Island in Canada.

See? That wasn't hard.

[Brookhaven]

Why go after the complicated answer when the simple one works.

Someone established a religious community.

The community established a library of religious documents.

They stored the library documents in the caves where they would be protected from weather, fire, and theft.

At some point the community disbanded (or was destroyed) and the library documents were left behind forgotten in the caves.

IMHO, probably the only thing unique about this religious community was that they stored their library documents in a cave. I’m sure there were a number of religious communties and synagogues in the area that had better libraries, but becuase the stored their documents in the main building they were eventually destroyed by fire, stolen, or disintegrated due to poor storage conditions.

It is the cave as storage facility that makes the essenses unique. Not everything else.

[GreenHornet]

Gone is the Ark of the Covenant.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone brings it into the shop on "Pawn Stars."

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Verginius Rufus]

Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

I thought Al Gore had admitted to writing them (in between sessions with masseuses).

[Yet_Again]

deciphered a two-thousand-year-old cup with the phrase "Lord, I have returned"

Which, instead of proving that the Dead Sea Scrolls were written by multiple groups, proves that Jews of the day did a thriving business selling souvenir mugs to pilgrims in the temple courtyard...

[jjotto]

Simple explanations are best.

Worn out scrolls, scrolls by heretics or forgers that contain the 4-letter name of God, have always been placed in a “genizah”. The Genizah at Cairo was also a spectacular find.

A scroll in a genizah could not be assumed to be authoritative without other evidence.

But there are no theological axes to grind in a humble genizah.

[SunkenCiv]

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• Searching for the Better Text: How errors crept into the Bible and what can be done to correct them
• Dead Sea Scroll dating now possible
• Jordan, PA Claim Dead Sea Scrolls
• Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
• Prof explores journey of Dead Sea Scrolls
• Dead Sea Scrolls stir storm at ROM
• The Abraham Story: An Introduction LDS (OPEN)
• Scholar: The Essenes, Dead Sea Scroll 'authors,' never existed
• Scholar: The Essenes, Dead Sea Scroll 'authors,' never existed
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• THE OLD TESTAMENT SPEAKS TODAY -- LDS (OPEN)
• Dead Sea Scrolls to Hit the Internet
• Israel to Put Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet
• Dead Sea tablet 'casts doubt' on death and resurrection of Jesus
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• Challenging History: The Dead Sea Scrolls
• DNA and the Dead Sea Scrolls how do the pieces fit!
• Stephen Spielberg Holocaust foundation gives $100,000 for biased Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit
• LDS Perspectives On The Dead Sea Scrolls (LDS Caucus)
• Dead Sea Scrolls at the San Diego Natural History Museum: the Christian fundamentalist connection
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• A lively debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls
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• The Hidden Latrines of The Essenes
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• Toilet Evidence Links Dead Sea Scrolls To Sect (Essenes)
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• Analyzing Dead Sea Scrolls evolves from carbon to DNA
• The Dead Sea Scrolls: Twenty Questions and Answers 2006 (LDS Caucus)
• Archaeologists Challenge Link Between Dead Sea Scrolls and Ancient Sect
• Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar John Trever Dies
• Dead Sea Scrolls photographer John Trever dies
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