HOLY FUCKBALLS, BATMAN

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This ought to piss off the fundies something fierce!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-827144.html

Increasingly, though, it looks as though the Bible has handed down a distorted picture of history. Papyrus scrolls recovered from Qumran on the Dead Sea, as well as a fragment of the Bible that recently surfaced on the market for antiquities, necessitate a "complete reassessment," says Schorch.

Hardly a "complete reassessment," such scholarship has been around since the nineteenth century, and copies of the Samaritan Torah have always been inexistance. Ironically the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (In itself something that happened over fifty years ago.) have done more to confuse the issue than to clear it up... this article isn't offering up any "new" evidence that isn't at least fifty years old already.

That said, it is an interesting article, and a fascinating topic, but I wish journalists who deal with the academic would resist the urge to portray things as "revolutionary" or "groundbreaking", when they aren't anything of the sort. I know Tiberius gets annoyed when they do it with science, and it is also slightly annoying when they do it with history. (Though to be honest, if it gets people interested, why not.)


I don't know if your aware but the specific dispute mentioned in the article is explicitly referenced in John Ch. 4, (Verse 20 if you don't wanna read the whole chapter for the context.).

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