Showing posts with label Dead Sea Scrolls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dead Sea Scrolls. Show all posts

Thursday 18 March 2021

A discovery of human artefacts and human remains older than six thousand years

 

The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a 10,500 year old woven basket in the Judaea desert.
 
Discoveries both of human artefacts and human remains that are older than six thousand years pose a fundamental challenge both to the belief that humans would only six thousand years old and the concept of a ‘seven thousand year plan’. 
 
Between 1946 and 1956, some 981 different texts and scrolls were discovered in eleven caves in the eastern Judaean Desert of what is now the modern-day West Bank. This collection known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, was a huge sensation.
 
Preserved by the aridity of that region in the southwestern part of Israel, these scrolls dated back to around 100 B.C.E.-100 C.E..  They included Hebrew texts of much of the Old Testament, which were about a thousand years older than previously known Hebrew scriptures (or Old Testament) manuscripts and showed that the these texts had been transmitted rather faithfully over centuries of scribal copying. There were also other writings peculiar to the Jewish community that lived near those caves, which gave new insights into the religious and social currents of that day.
 
The previous weeks Israeli archaeologists, having searched the caves the Judean Desert announced their findings of further texts, giving us withdozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments some more insight in the texts of the minor prophets. 
Other objects found alongside the scroll fragments also withstood the test of time, including ancient olive pits; remnants of clothing and sandals and a wooden lice comb similar to one that might be used today.
 

Archaeologist Chaim Cohen says the four-year project has been vital to protect the treasures inside the cave system from future plunder.

"This project is the protection of the area because, again, it is almost impossible to beat the looters," he said. "They're working, and the solution was to get to the case before the looters."

The massive excavation site spans parts of southern Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel has long been criticized for removing objects found in the Palestinian territories.

According to international law, taking cultural property from an occupied territory is forbidden, but those concerns haven't prevented the Israeli Antiquities Authority from putting the discoveries on display.

The 10,500-year-old basket as found in Muraba‘at Cave. (photo credit: YANIV BERMAN/IAA)

 
The basket, the discovery of which was announced Tuesday 16th March was found in Muraba’at cave in the Judaea desert. According to the Jerusalem Post article, it is believed to be the oldest of its kind ever uncovered. 
 
Ken Gilmore, an Australian Christadelphian,  reacts on these findings and certain people their idea that mankind only exists a 5 or 6 thousand years:

Both the belief that humans were created only six thousand years ago and the ‘Gap Theory’ that posits an earlier creation which was eradicated and replaced six thousand years ago by another creation make clearly testable predictions. The former would have no human fossils or artifacts older than six thousand years in the archaeological record, while the latter would show clear signs of a destruction six thousand years ago and no sign of continuity between human remains / artifacts on either side of this six thousand year old destruction layer. It goes without saying that we see neither. What we do see is continuity and human antiquity, stretching back well before six thousand years ago:
“The transition from the food-gathering phase to fully developed agriculture and pastoralism was a long process which began in the Near East around 10,500 B.C.E. and lasted several thousands of years. It was accompanied by changes in social organization and economic activity which expressed themselves in the establishment of settled communities and the eventual birth of the ancient Near Eastern civilizations. Some of the most important steps in this development can be traced in Palestine.”

 

Read more on what he has to say:

How a 10,000 year old basket (and the whole archaeology of Neolithic and Chalcolithic Palestine) falsifies the fundamentalist belief in a Seven Thousand Year Plan

Sunday 26 April 2015

World’s tiniest bible to be presented at Israel Museum for 50th anniversary

English: Logo of the Technion – Israel Institu...
Logo of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As part of its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, the Jerusalem-based Israel Museum will display the “Nano Bible,” the world’s smallest bible, an Israeli innovation created at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

The tiny bible will be displayed alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, a manuscript of the Jewish bible from 10th century C.E. The Nano Bible is a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead. It is 0.04 square millimeters, and 0.00002 millimeters (20 nanometers) deep. The 1.2 million letters of the bible were written using a focused ion beam generator that shot gallium ions onto a gold surface covering a base layer of silicon.

Dr. Ohad Zohar and Professor Uri Sivan of the Technion Physics Department developed the idea, and the engineers of the Technion’s Sara and Moshe Zisapel Nanoelectronics Center were responsible for the manufacturing of the chip and the development of the software that allows the engraving of the letters.

The Israel Museum will also exhibit a documentary on the creation of the Nano Bible and will enable the reading of the biblical text under a microscope.

http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2015/4/16/worlds-tiniest-bible-to-be-presented-at-israel-museum-for-50th-anniversary

Tuesday 1 October 2013

Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity

In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd discovered seven scrolls in a cave overlooking the northwest end of the Dead Sea. A further search found additional scrolls in eleven caves. In total there were more than 800 documents discovered.The scrolls found where more than a thousand years older than the oldest copies of scripture known to exist in the 1940ies.
English: Jordan, Amman, Dead Sea Scroll 1Q28 D...
English: Jordan, Amman, Dead Sea Scroll 1Q28 Deutsch: Jordanien, Amman, Schriftrolle vom Toten Meer 1Q28 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Many theories have developed about the whereabouts and by whom written.There are even experts who believe the same people who wrote/transcribed many of the dead sea scrolls also wrote/transcribed documents discovered at Masada.

Adolfo Roitman, curator of the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scroll collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, will discuss “The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity” at Kent State University at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Kent Student Center Kiva.

The lecture is presented by Kent State’s Jewish Studies program, with support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy.  A dessert reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Chyla Kessler at ckessle7@kent.edu or David Odell-Scott at dodellsc@kent.edu

Please do find: 

Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library at your fingertips

Dead Sea Scrolls online
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Friday 26 July 2013

Dead Sea scrolls at Drents Museum in Assen

English: Dead Sea Scroll - part of Isaiah Scro...
English: Dead Sea Scroll - part of Isaiah Scroll (Isa 57:17 - 59:9), 1QIsa b (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Dead Sea scrolls very rarely travel outside Israel, but they represent one of the major archeological discoveries of the last century. Since they were first found around sixty years ago, they have yielded ground breaking new scholarship. Many of the interpretations and reconstructions are heavily discussed and contested. Not only do they contest previously held insights among scholars, but they also give new insights into two of the major religious traditions: Christianity and Judaism. Themes include the nature of Judaism at the time, the nature of the community of people living at Qumran, but also whether the notion of a suffering Messiah was already present before the time of Jesus.


Fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls on display a...
Fragments of the Dead Sea scrolls on display at the Archeological Museum, Amman (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Some of the texts represent the oldest existing texts of the bible, but many are also of a much more mundane nature, representing documents that people would take anticipating a flight from violence. Because of the varied nature of the documents found, they are a window unto the life during the times when (parts of) the Middle East was under Roman and Greek rule, the revolts against these empires and the links Jewish communities had to other parts of the world.

The exhibition in Assen is the result of a cooperation between the Drents museum Assen, the Israeli Antiquities Authority and Mladen Popovic, director of the Qumran institute at the University of Groningen. It can be visited until the 5th of January 2014.

English: Photographic reproduction of the Grea...
Photographic reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran. It contains the entire Book of Isaiah in Hebrew, apart from some small damaged parts. This manuscript was probably written by a scribe of the Jewish sect of the Essenes around the second century BC. It is therefore over a 1000 years older than the oldest Masoretic manuscripts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
During the 2nd century bce and 2nd century ce the majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls were written. The Scrolls clarify our understanding of the fundamental differences between different Jewish sects, such as the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. at that time the people working at reproducing the writings of the Holy Scriptures considered their work very important and looked at the older writings as Sacred Scriptures where no fault could be allowed in the reproduction.
The non-biblical texts show profound discrepancies in the ways that the different groups, different Jewish sects, such as the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes, interpreted their Scripture and obeyed its guidelines.

The texts shown on the exhibition may shed light on philosophical disputes about issues such as the Temple and priesthood, the religious calendar and the afterlife. They also present us with the more practical disputes at the time with the focus on everyday law and observance.

The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls digital library of the Israeli Antiquities Authority has a beautiful website with background information in English, as well as high quality images of the scrolls themselves.

Popovic explaining the significance of the scrolls on the Dutch new programmeKnevel and van den Brink (Dutch, towards the end of the program)

Article in Dutch highbrow newspaper NRC on the Dead Sea scrolls


Portion of a photographic reproduction of the ...
Portion of a photographic reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran. It contains the entire Book of Isaiah in Hebrew, apart from some small damaged parts. This manuscript was probably written by a scribe of the Jewish sect of the Essenes around the second century BC. It is therefore over a 1000 years older than the oldest Masoretic manuscripts. This picture shows all of Isaiah 53 (and is mostly identical to the Masoretic version). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Friday 23 November 2012

Seminar on Bible Translation in Prague

At the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague,several speakers shall try to explore and facilitate a conversation on the overall picture of Bible translation, particularly in Eastern Europe There will be given five major papers on Translation Logistics, Models of Translation and the Target Audience, Recent Research on Bible Translation in Central and Eastern Europe, Folk Translations and Vernacular Readings, Recent Romanian Translations with particular reference to Cultural, Ecclesiastical and Doctrinal Bias, and the 400th Anniversary of the King James Version. Four Workshops with short papers and discussion on Translation Structures and Ecumenical Considerations in the Slovak Ecumenical Bible (2007), and other possible topics such as translating the Psalms, translation for beginners and a ‘first academic’ translation of the Bible in an Eastern European country.

Further input from other countries, with time for open discussion, informal conversations and networking.

Contributors:
Juraj Bandy, Slovak Professor and specialist in Bible translation, responsible for the recent translation of the Slovak Ecumenical Bible.
Emanuel Contac, lecturer at the Theological Pentecostal Institute in Bucharest, whose doctoral dissertation (published by Logos) addresses theological and cultural bias in Romanian translations of the New Testament focussing on eleven concepts (eg Mariology, presbyteros, etc) and specific words and texts (eg dikaioun, menoun, etc) in 40 Romanian versions.
Iryna Dubianetskaya, a Greek Catholic biblical scholar and linguist, Doctor of Sacred Theology (Ph.D., S.T.D), leader of the Bible School (Flying University, Minsk), Docent at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, initiator and co-ordinator of the Committee for the first academic translation of the Bible into Belarusian.
John Elwolde (to be confirmed), former UBS Translation Consultant in Ukraine, Belarus, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Russia, and Central Asia. Recent contributions include ‘Language and Translation of the Old Testament’ (Rogerson & Lieu (eds), Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies, pp 135-38, OUP), ‘Relationships among the Russian Synodal Bible, the Slavonic Text, and the Septuagint’ (Folia Orientalia 47) and ‘The Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and Some Issues of Canon’ (Lénart J. de Regt (ed), Canon and Modern Bible Translation in Interconfessional Perspective, pp 1-41, UBS, Turkey).
Florentina Badalanova Geller, graduate in Slavonic Philology, University of Sofia, holding a PhD from Moscow State University, 1984. Currently Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, teaching courses on Biblical Anthropology and Apocrypha, on leave from the Royal Anthropological Institute, London. Previous appointments in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the University of Sofia, and University of London. She is Honorary Research Fellow, UCL (Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies). Currently working on the Folk Bible and vernacular Mariology.
Alec Gilmore, Baptist minister in the UK, graduate of Manchester University, IBTS Senior Research Fellow and author of Dictionary of Bible Origins and interpretation (T & T Clark).
Jamie Grant, lecturer in Biblical Studies at the Highland Theological College, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK.
Lydie Kucova, graduate of Brunel and Edinburgh Universities, member of the IBTS Academic Team and lecturer in Biblical Studies.
Silviu Tatu, Senior Lecturer at the Theological Pentecostal Institute in Bucharest, and well acquainted with the Cornilescu version and other translation issues, including relationships with the Orthodox Church.

For further details relating the programme of the seminar please contact: Lydie Kucova (Kucova@ibts.eu) or Alec Gilmore (a.gilmore@gilco.org.uk).

Monday 19 September 2011

HalleluYah Scriptures

Although there are a number of Messianic Scriptures available with the Name of the Creator restored to It’s rightful position, the majority have used the modern Hebrew Tetragammaton  . The HalleluYah Scriptures version will use the ancient — sometimes called paleo Hebrew letter forms of YHWH  — the form which it is believed Jehovah/YaHuWaH wrote His Name YaHuWaH on the Ten Commandments in stone. Scriptures
This practice is used in the “Dead Sea Scrolls” which are written in the modern form of Hebrew yet the Name of  retains the form of the ancient Hebrew.

A number of Messianic evangelists worldwide who call on the Name of YHWH = YaHuWaH / Jehovah and have commonly forsaken all (and therefore have financial restrictions) have lamented that they would love to be able to give out free Scriptures to those who have ears to hear and have aknowledged that the Name of the Creator and His Son are vital to salvation:

"And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of YHWH shall be saved." Acts 2:21

They have produced a Messianic English version of the Scriptures that will have the Name of YHWH and His Son - Yahushua restored to their rightful place and be FREE to ANYONE in need.

"You have received without paying, give without being paid"
Matthew 10:8

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You may have your own copy of His Word or even several that you read from, but there are thousands of believers worldwide who simply cannot afford the high prices some are charging for restored name versions let alone the honor of being able to give out the Word for FREE!

Yahweh never “copyrighted… His Word and no one should claim recompense for a service to the Master let alone make a profit from His Word.
“Attain the truth and do not sell it….” (Proverbs 23:23)
If you are interested in what form and style the 'Halleluyah Scriptures' will look like Read This.
> HalleluYah Scriptures

Thursday 1 July 2010

Archeological Findings the name of God YHWH

Jerusalem - Archeological Findings the name of God YHWH
 From: EmethEverywhere

 Movie about Amazing archeological finding in Jerusalem predating the Dead sea Scrolls by at least 400 years.  Excerpts from the book of Numbers.  Great Discovery about the Divine Name YHWH YahWeh Jehovah YEHOWAH.

Clearly showing the name YHWH and proof that it was in use among the israelites.

> http://www.youtube.com/user/EmethEverywhere#p/u/0/YUyBTNDPJrw

Dutch translation / Nederlandse vertaling: Archeologische vondst omtrent de Naam van God YHWH


Detail of a stained glass window featuring a r...
Detail of a stained glass window featuring a representation of the Tetragrammaton installed in Grace Episcopal Church soon after 1868 when the church was built in Decorah, Iowa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


2013 update:

  1. Attributes to God
  2. Jehovah Yahweh Gods Name
  3. I am that I am Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
  4. Hashem השם, Hebrew for "the Name"
  5. I Will Cause Your Name To Be Remembered
  6. For Jehovah is greatly to be praised
  7. Praise the God with His Name
  8. Lord or Yahuwah, Yeshua or Yahushua
  9. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
  10. Developing new energy


  1. Spelling van Bijbelse namen
  2. Belangrijkheid van Gods Naam
  3. Archeologische vondst omtrent de Naam van God YHWH
  4. Eigenheden aan God toegeschreven
  5. God over zijn Naam יהוה
  6. Ik ben die ben Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh אהיה אשר אהיה
  7. Hashem השם, Hebreeuws voor "de Naam"
  8. Een Naam voor een God #7 Jahwe(h) niet Hebreeuws
  9. Een Naam voor een God #8 Vergeten of weigeren
  10. Een Naam voor een God #9 Vals geloof gevoed door vrees
  11. Een Naam voor een God #10 God en goddelijkheid
  12. Een Naam voor een God #11 Y of J Kiezen
  13. Getuig van een levende God en zijn zegeningen voor jou
  14. Prijs en zeg dank tot God de Allerhoogste
  15. Opgetekend in je hoofd wat is neergetekend
  16. God, Jezus Christus en de Heilige Geest
  17. Heer, Yahuwah, Yeshua of Yahushua
  18. Yahushua, Yehoshua, Yeshua, Jehoshua of Jeshua
  19. Zonder God geen reden, geen doel, geen hoop
  20. Nieuwe energie ontwikkelen
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