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A blog by Managing Editor James Jordan about the newspaper. So far it's mostly about city commission, but I hope to delve into other local issues.
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- I have been at the Traveler for 4 years. I have been in the newspaper business longer than that. I came here from South Carolina. Apart from that, I am an unapologetic Jesus Freak. I am not, however, Republican.
3 comments:
JJ
In your spare time you might want to go to TIME.Com. There is an interesting debate going on about the Dead Sea Scrolls in one of their articles. It revolves around the writers. It would be interesting to here your view!
In your spare time you might want to go to TIME.Co
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I was just reading that article at lunch.
One thing is that I think the writer of the article was making it into more than it was.
The article said it was "shaking the foundations" of biblical scholarship. Which is bunk.
It doesn't impact biblical scholarship at all really.
But the dead sea scrolls do support the authenticity of ancient biblical texts, so if you could discredit the essenes you might discredit their work i guess.
Exactly who the essenes were is a mystery of sorts. There certainly were not thousands of them as the article said. There were probably a few hundred hanging out in the hills around Israel.
They were celibate so ... there were no little essenes running around to keep their movement going.
But someone hid away all those scrolls full of ancient biblical texts. That is what matters in my opinion, not who compiled them.
or preserved them.
But whoever the essenes were, they were around, to say they never existed is not very good scholarship.
:)
"I have taken a vow of celibacy, like my father, and his father before him."
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