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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-discover-dead-things dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

More than 25 previously unpublished "Dead Sea Scroll" fragments, dating back 2,000 years and holding text from the Hebrew Bible, have been brought to light, their contents detailed in two new books.

The various scroll fragments record parts of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Samuel, Ruth, Kings, Micah, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Joshua, Judges, Proverbs, Numbers, Psalms, Ezekiel and Jonah. The Qumran caves ― where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered ― had yet to yield any fragments from the Book of Nehemiah; if this newly revealed fragment is authenticated it would be the first.

Scholars have expressed concerns that some of the fragments are forgeries. [See Photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments]

These 25 newly published fragments are just the tip of the iceberg. A scholar told Live Science that around 70 newly discovered fragments have appeared on the antiquities market since 2002. Additionally, the cabinet minister in charge of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), along with a number of scholars, believes that there are undiscovered scrolls that are being found by looters in caves in the Judean Desert. The IAA is sponsoring a new series of scientific surveys and excavations to find these scrolls before looters do.


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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:12PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Tuesday October 11 2016, @09:12PM (#413116) Homepage Journal

    Having a book shoved at you at the business end of a sword/gun does not a great publication history make. At least from a PR standpoint. Does the counter roll backwards when I burn them?

    I just can't wait for the new "hidden truths" in the Dead Sea scrolls to justify torturing, killing, and enslaving people. How did that person used to call the god of those works? A genocide fairy? Seems to check out.

    Given that Judaism forbids proselytizing and makes conversion quite difficult, no one is going to be shoving a book "at you at the business end of a sword/gun."

    Unless you're talking about Christianity. Which ignores most of what's referred to as the "Hebrew Bible" anyway.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @01:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @01:56PM (#413429)

    Ah, you're right. I was thinking of Christianity. (And let's not forget Islam since it has the same brain damage.) The Jews seem happy mutilating our genitals at birth and then keeping to themselves.