Dead Sea Scroll found - Leviticus 23 and 24 - National Geographic

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Dead Sea Scroll found - Leviticus 23 and 24 - National Geographic

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These fragments come from Leviticus 23 and 24, which dictate the ritual calender, including the six-day workweek and Sabbath. After examining the pieces and the cave, Eshel dated the placement of the scroll in the cave to A.D. 135, during the second Jewish revolt against the Romans, when hundreds of Jews sought shelter in the caves.

by Siobhan Roth

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Tue Feb-28-06 10:02 PM
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1. Wow, this is exciting news.

I have been intrigued by the Dead Sea Scrolls for a long time. I tend to side with the "rogue" scholars who feel that there is a lot of information in the scrolls, but the heavy Hand of the Vatican is silencing the really good stuff.

Thanks for posting.

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Tue Feb-28-06 10:41 PM
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3. What does the Vatican have to do with the scrolls?

Israel is the one who has possession of them. What ever they do with them is up to them.

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rurallib

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Tue Feb-28-06 10:39 PM
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2. What is the one about hating gays? Is that Leviticus?

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Tue Feb-28-06 10:43 PM
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4. Your are twisting words

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mtice

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Wed Mar-01-06 06:49 AM
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5. Hating gays

Appears in both Exodus and at least twice in Leviticus.

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Wed Mar-01-06 07:12 AM
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6. Yeah so does killing your neighbor

for working on the Sabbath, eatting pork and sleep with a menstruation woman. Your point?
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Wed Mar-01-06 11:01 AM
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7. It says the word translated as "abomination."

Which in the original does not mean what it means in english. As others have pointed out, the phrase also refers to sleeping with a menstruating woman or eating shellfish.

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Wed Mar-01-06 12:59 PM
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8. jeez I thought this was something cool to post and I still do, but I

didn't foresee the thread taking this avenue.

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Wed Mar-01-06 03:20 PM
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9. I agree that it is cool to post. Leviticus also stands for, among

other things, a radical redistribution of land every 50 years.

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Wed Mar-01-06 04:11 PM
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10. Do they cover anything not already found?

Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 04:18 PM by muriel_volestrangler

We already have parts of chapters 22-27 (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/scr3.html). Alternatively, do they contradict the accepted version of Leviticus?

On edit: 23 is about how to keep various feast days; 24 gives the death penalty for murder (and is the quote "eye for eye, tooth for tooth"), and also the death penalty for blasphemy (which is carried out, by stoning, on a woman's son of indeterminate age). What would be cool would be a version saying you don't get stoned for blasphemy, because, after all, that's not "eye for eye, tooth for tooth", is it?

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