This Is An Interesting Admission

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http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/06/a-n...bed/111592

A National Plan to Excavate the Judean Desert Caves and Save the Scrolls from Being Robbed

The Israel Antiquities Authority, in cooperation with the Heritage Project in the Ministry of Jerusalem Affairs, and together with the Minister of Culture and Sport, MK Miri Regev, is promoting a national plan for comprehensive archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert caves, and rescuing the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are among the earliest texts written in the Hebrew language.

According to Israel Hasson, director-general of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “For years now our most important heritage and cultural assets have been excavated illicitly and plundered in the Judean Desert caves for reasons of greed. The goal of the national plan that we are advancing is to excavate and find all of the scrolls that remain in the caves, once and for all, so that they will be rescued and preserved by the state”.

It would seem that the Israelis have a far superior understanding of their own heritage than these idiot fundies who think fucking "David" was writing books in hebrew in the 10th century!  Of course, that isn't really a surprise.  There isn't much dumber than a fundie.

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Sport? Tag team wrestling.

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Why?

Don't tell me the smart Jews still believe in fairy tales?
Or is it just for historicity?

In which case, how will that prove anything? Min?

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The IAA exists to preserve antiquities but there are factions within Israeli society which think they can use archaeology to prove that their claim to the land is "genuine."  It's silly of course.  Whatever jewish-style culture that existed in the early 2d century was evicted by the Romans after the bar Kochba rebellion.  If they think they can find additional documents hidden in caves that would be a worthwhile endeavor for them.  There have been some finds made in caves from the bar Kochba period.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/se...clnk&gl=us

But the admission that matters is that the OT is horseshit and that the earliest documents written in Hebrew - which accounts for a significant percentage of the Dead Sea Scrolls but by no means all of them, date from the 2d century BC to the first century AD.  The xtian zionists hate hearing that shit.  They think fucking moses wrote the pentateuch in Hebrew in the mid 2d millennium BC.  And anyone who tells them otherwise must be the devil.