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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
A team of workers at Art Fraud Insights, LLC, has found that all of the Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) fragments housed at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C. are fake. They have published their findings on their company website.
The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of scrolls found in the Qumran Caves near the shore of the Dead Sea. They were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1946. Since that time, the scrolls have been identified as ancient Jewish manuscripts created over the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. They are housed in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum.
[...] the team [at Art Fraud Insights, LLC] [...] found that the material makeup of the collection did not match that of the original DSS fragments—they appeared to be ancient leather rather than parchment. More importantly, they had found that modern ink had been used to print words on the old material fragments—it had pooled on the old dried leather. The group also found evidence of clay mineral dust similar to that found in the Qumran Caves that had been applied after the inking had been done—evidence of an attempt to cover up the fake materials below. The final verdict: the fragments were not only fake, but had been created for the purpose of deception.
It is still not known who went to such great lengths to create the fake DSS fragments.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday March 19 2020, @01:56AM (1 child)
No, I don't think that at all, but I would be interested in how you've come to that conclusion.
Oh, yes. Quite right. What people profess to believe never ceases to amaze me, also.
I'm guessing the Jehovah's Witnesses are creaming their pants in anticipation of Armageddon. It's 1975 all over again for them.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday March 19 2020, @07:13AM
Oh yes, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons and/or Latter Day Saints, various baptist sects, fundies, and maybe some of those Holy Rollers . . . and that's just off the top of my head, staying within the Christian faith. All of the sects that based their religion on that magic number of 144,000 are trying to horn in on this stuff. And, the real kicker is, the 144,000 are Jewish, each and every time they are mentioned in the Holy Books. No Christians invited.