[nickcarraway]

ping

[jimboster]

Me and a friend were walking through the desert one day when we spotted something in the sand which we initially thought was a biblical scroll. It wasn't, but we knew a camel was around somewhere.

[carumba]

A Bedouin had been offered $20,000 (£11,000)...

How many shekels is that at today's rate of exchange?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nick, will add it to the catalog, as I have these:

Bedouin Wanders Across Biblical Manuscript
ABC News Online | 7-15-2005
Posted on 07/15/2005 9:24:34 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1443637/posts

Biblical scroll fragments found in Israel
AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Friday, July 15, 2005 | DANIELLE HAAS
Posted on 07/15/2005 8:29:23 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1444060/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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[the invisib1e hand]

somewhere in a cave in the desert some old beduoins are laughing their *sses off while their Mexican employees sit at rows of tables cranking out little ancient looking scrolls.

[redgolum]

Maybe left overs from Qumran?

[GladesGuru]

Both pieces, when properly translated say "Nuke the Sand Savages".

[concerned about politics]

They better not have been typed on a word processor. We've had just about enough of that stuff already!

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[Sabramerican]

inscribed in Hebrew

They way the World insists this is "Palestinian" land I would think the inscription would have been in "Palestinian".

[BibChr]

Ping

[COBOL2Java]

"No more scrolls have been found in the Judean desert since 1965. This encourages scholars to believe that if they bother to excavate, survey and climb they will still find things in the Judean desert. The common knowledge has been that there is nothing left to find there," Prof Eshel said.

Check the Palis. They're probably using them for firewood, or worse.

[ppaul]

ping.

[rabidralph]

I hope the scroll says, "Stop negotiating with the palestinians."

[Alouette]

I have been skeptical of these claims since the "James brother of Jesus" burial box hoax.

Antiquities is a huge business, and forgeries of antiquities are common. I mean, there is only a very small population of "experts" who can verify if something is authentic or a hoax.

[all4one]

FYI ping.

[Tall_Texan]

These scrolls are found after being gone for 2,000 years but the MSM is sure we won't find any WMDs after 18 months.

[VOA]

bump

[shield]

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