To: aruanan
Is that why the Christians are having a hissy fit about the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Personally, I will trust text that can be dated close to the original even.
8 posted on
04/05/2002 4:29:51 PM PST by
Hunble
To: Hunble
<> What hissy fit ar you refering to? As far as I've heard the Dead Sea Scolls contain Old Testament material which thus far has proven to be very close to our current translations. Is there something new I haven't heard about?
9 posted on
04/05/2002 4:42:48 PM PST by
foolscap
To: Hunble
"Is that why the Christians are having a hissy fit about the Dead Sea Scrolls" I haven't heard anything about this. Could you please explain?
11 posted on
04/05/2002 4:44:38 PM PST by
freedom9
To: Hunble
Is that why the Christians are having a hissy fit about the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Personally, I will trust text that can be dated close to the original even.
The only hissies I've heard of is what others say Christians are having or should have over the "secrets" the Dead Sea Scrolls are purported to contain that will render Christianity untenable. This is simply ludicrous. Although the entire collection hasn't been officially published or released to other researchers, it has been available to researchers in the form of copies for a long, long time. The reason for the "secrecy" has nothing to do with explosive contents but with the maintenence of professional bailiwicks. The way it works in this case is that the scrolls had been largely under the control of one guy. It was he who decided who would get access and who would not. His students would, in the normal course of events--ie, his earthly demise--continue the custodianship of the manuscripts. When you have in your possession a treasure trove of manuscripts from one of the most important times and regions in history, you have a chance at immortal glory (relatively speaking) in your field. But you won't get there by being kindergartenish and share with all the other wittle wesearchers any more than you would find a big treasure in a field and put up floodlit signs announcing the fact before you get thorough control over the situation.
I can understand why some people would be wanting to suggest the existence of something detrimental to Christianity due to the overwhelming solid historical support it has.
29 posted on
04/06/2002 3:51:55 AM PST by
aruanan
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