Posted on 06/02/2015 10:45:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Update to this 2015 article.
Conservators at Stanford University Libraries removed the pages from the leather-bound cover of the book of hymns, and mounted each leaf in an individually fitted, archival mat. The individual mats were placed in an aluminum frame to secure the pages while examining the underlying text with X-rays at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. Credit: Farrin Abbott / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
True, but the leprosy of Leviticus was not the modern disease we call leprosy, which has different symptoms.
How do these symptoms differ? As was pointed out above, washing in the Nile may have preserved health better than having very little water in more desert areas. ONe reason for the success of Islam was the rule about washing hands 5 times a day before prayer. Also the rule about using the right hand for eating from the communal cookpot, and the left hand for cleaning human waste.
About whether it has been translated.....IN fact I hope not. Scholars or anyone need to learn Greek...read it in the original, the authentic.
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