Dead Sea Scrolls to be digitized; Ancient tablet might rewrite the Bible
The Dead Sea Scrolls are undergoing a massive conservation and recording effort that will see them posted online in their entirety, photographed with new infra-red methods that allow previously invisible text to be read. The scrolls are on their last legs, having been assembled with Scotch tape in the 1950s and steadily degrading ever since. The 900 documents are in about 15 000 pieces, and the hope is that the newly visible bits will help with reconstruction, matching handwriting and such. In any case people can stop groping them and exposing them to light, and do their research virtually.
What new tidbits about Christ will we learn? Secrets so very dark they had to be buried in a cave for 2000 years? Stay tuned; the scrolls should be online in a couple years.
Don’t get too attached to JC, however…a fresh interpretation of ancient-Hebrew inscribed stone tablet predating the big J seems to bear an awfully similar messiah legend, involving a prince of princes who dies and rises after 3 days. Is this a pre-Christian prophecy, or another formulation of the good ole’ Horus myth? Occham says…
The Dead Sea Scrolls have turned out to be good evidence that the Bible as it exists today has many changes from the original text; sort fo a kick in the pants for an Evengelical who beleives in the infalibility of the Bible.
Posted by Formo-Mormo on August 30th, 2008 7:35 pm