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| Asia Times: Indiana Jones meets the Da Vinci Code - alternate verisons of Koran recovered |
| 2008-01-14 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #8 All mosques are decorated with quotes from the Koran. The version that is used on the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem differs from the accepted text. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2008-01-14 23:19 |
| #7 Back to the topic. If I understand the flimsy history of the koran,it was modified many many times to fit the whims of anyone it power. An example Mo himself pulled to justify his dastardly deeds and lusts. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-01-14 22:10 |
| #6 It's my understanding, amateur that I am, that there were three main strands of Judaism during the intertestamental period: the Temple-oriented, traditional Jews who took the Bible literally, especially all the rules and regulations regarding Temple sacrifices (the Sadducees); the rabbi- and synagogue-oriented Jews who interpreted Biblical laws to discern God's intent under conditions that had significantly changed since the time of the Israelites (the Pharisees, whose descendants are most Jews of today); and the Essenes, male monastics who believed in the imminent coming of the Jewish Messiah, who would conquer all the nations of the earth to establish God's kingdom with its capitol in Jerusalem. A great deal of the Essene writings were eschatological, using imagery much like that in the New Testament, the rest being obsessive regulations for the minutia of daily life. As Danielle says, the movement is believed to have been formed by Temple priests displaced by the Maccabeans. Josephus boasted that he had studied with the Essenes as well as being a rabbinic prodigy, as I recall, before becoming a leader of the First Jewish Rebellion and then defecting to the Romans. After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Sadducees and the Essenes disappear from the record, so the idea that the Essenes became followers of Christ is conceivable, especially since the first generation of Christians were supposed to be celibate while awaiting the imminent return of their Messiah, until St. Paul changed that when he wrote that it's better to marry than to burn. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-01-14 21:58 |
| #5 Herschel Shanks of BAR called for the scholars to put aside their egos and Geza Vermes published the Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English. They are apocalyptic, messianic, and very challenging to Orthodox Jews and the Jesuits. The Ecole Biblique in France particularly protested the release. The Protestant Christian conclusion is they were written by oppressed Jewish Zadokite priests during the intertestamental times, fiercely opposed the appointed Maccabean priesthood as illigetimate and the sect became Christians, moving on during the Roman persecution after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Fragments of all the books of the Jewish Bible except Ruth, besides the sectarian texts, were also found but not the Apocrypha. Jordan even had control of some of the texts besides the Catholic scholars, making any consensus impossible on the DSS. I found this article interesting and a possible plot for a future Steve Berry novel! |
| Posted by: Danielle 2008-01-14 20:31 |
| #4 Read also in ASIA TIMES > BIN LADEN TURNS UP THE HEAT ON SAUDI ARABIA + CAPTAIN AHAB AND THE ISLAMIC WHALE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-01-14 18:10 |
| #3 RN Jim__ There was a book out about 10 years ago. The main thrust of the writings was touted as being a rather nasty schism between the followers of James and Peter. |
| Posted by: Elmetch Untervehr1346 2008-01-14 17:30 |
| #2 When I read the article in the WSJ I wondered if they were stored near the former Reichstag building. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-01-14 17:08 |
| #1 Reminds me of the "Dead Sea Scrolls" they're doing their damnedest to make sure they're never "Deciphered" and made public, I remember the outrage when a few years ago a Jewish Scholar did just that, using a computer to piece together the fragments (Think ancient jigsaw puzzle) Panic everywhere, instant denunciation that "they couldn't be read, even though he did it and made it public. (Haven't heard much about it, Have you? Quickly and thoroughly discredited, it was) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-01-14 16:52 |