Scholars in uproar over challenge to Dead Sea Scrolls

[Viggen]

For more than 60 years scholars have believed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes, who lived in the 1st century in the mountains and recorded their religious observances on parchments.

 

Now a new theory challenging the broadly accepted history is sending shockwaves through the archaeological community, even leading to the arrest of one prominent scrolls scholar

[caesar novus]

Now a new theory challenging the broadly accepted history is sending shockwaves through the archaeological community, even leading to the arrest of one prominent scrolls scholar

[Caesar CXXXVII]

For more than 60 years scholars have believed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes, who lived in the 1st century in the mountains and recorded their religious observances on parchments.

 

Now a new theory challenging the broadly accepted history is sending shockwaves through the archaeological community, even leading to the arrest of one prominent scrolls scholar

[Ingsoc]

Thats rubbish, the views that challenge the dead sea scrolls were written by a faction of the Essenes existed for years. the "revelation" of Ha'aretz is just a cheap way to cause a provocation in order to sell newspapers.

Edited March 19, 2009 by Ingsoc