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2006-11-15 Science & Technology

Archaeological Find: Essenes Were Horribly Infested With Worms

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-15 10:21|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think there is something wrong with me. I read the article, looked at the scroll photo and suddenly imagined a GOATSE version.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-11-15 10:43|| 2006-11-15 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL!

Posted by Mark E. 2006-11-15 12:02|| 2006-11-15 12:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Excalibur - you owe me a new keyboard!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2006-11-15 12:04|| 2006-11-15 12:04|| Front Page Top

#4 the scrolls were copies produced by a small sect, generally called the Essenes, who lived at Qumran.

Small sect? Numerically smaller than the other two sects at the time, yes: the Sadducees, who followed exactly the ancient rituals of the Temple in Jerusalem, led by the Kohens of the priestly family, and the Pharisees, led by the rabbis, who tried to discern the reasons for those rituals and devise modern ways to satisfy the reasons without the need for animal sacrifice and the literal "eye for an eye" that the Sadducees insisted upon (thus the invention of prayer services and the concept of payment for lost wages). The Essenes, on the other hand, awaited imminent arrival of the Messiah, who would establish God's kingdom on earth through the sword... and they were to be his conquering army. Their own writings, when not concerned with the minutia of their exhaustive purity rituals, were eschatologies much like those found in the New Testament. They disappeared along with the Sadduccees following the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, and I for one do not regret it.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-15 12:06|| 2006-11-15 12:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The group was not allowed to defecate on the Sabbath -- thus I believe we can now trace the near universal aversion to Mondays to it's genesis.

(Ignore the fact that the Sabbath was Saturday - poetic license invoked.)

Posted by GORT 2006-11-15 12:23|| 2006-11-15 12:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Essenes Were Horribly Infested With Worms

All that awaits is a causal link to the Diet of Worms.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-15 14:11|| 2006-11-15 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Now Zenster owes ME a new keyboard.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-11-15 17:53|| 2006-11-15 17:53|| Front Page Top

#8 (Ignore the fact that the Sabbath was Saturday - poetic license invoked.)

The Christian sabbath is on Sunday, GORT -- your statement works beautifully as it stands.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-15 19:00|| 2006-11-15 19:00|| Front Page Top

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