Dead Sea Scrolls

[purplepurpose]

Christian told me that 2000 years old Dead Sea Scrolls supports the claims of the bible. Could those scrolls have been made recently to boost faith?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No.  The provenance of most of the scrolls seems unimpeachable.  Radiometric dating, the parchment and ink used, the style of writing, and the fact that we know there were Essenes in the area at the proper time all indicate that the scrolls are not forgeries.

Boru

[Wyrd of Gawd]

2,000 years and no one in the past ever found those scrolls!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

2,000 years and no one in the past ever found those scrolls!

Because they were deliberately hidden in a series of caves that were notorious for being hard to get at.  We are still finding remains/ruins of ancient Rome, Parthia and the like, many of them of an age similar to the scrolls.

It is a truism that lost things tend to stay that way until someone finds them.

Boru

[Succubus]

Christian told me that 2000 years old Dead Sea Scrolls supports the claims of the bible. Could those scrolls have been made recently to boost faith?

What claims?
That Judaism was a well established religion at that time has never been questioned. The Jeebus dude and his antics; no mention of in the DSS.

[Minimalist]

There is no mention of jesus, xtians, or xtianity in the DSS. If there was every xtian fucktard would be shrieking it from the rooftops. They aren't.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

2,000 years and no one in the past ever found those scrolls!

Because they were deliberately hidden in a series of caves that were notorious for being hard to get at.  We are still finding remains/ruins of ancient Rome, Parthia and the like, many of them of an age similar to the scrolls.

It is a truism that lost things tend to stay that way until someone finds them.

Boru

Fake news on a par with the Shroud of Turin.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Because they were deliberately hidden in a series of caves that were notorious for being hard to get at.  We are still finding remains/ruins of ancient Rome, Parthia and the like, many of them of an age similar to the scrolls.

It is a truism that lost things tend to stay that way until someone finds them.

Boru

Fake news on a par with the Shroud of Turin.

The Shroud of Turin isn't 'fake news'.  It's a pious forgery.  The DSS, however, are authentic.

Boru

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Fake news on a par with the Shroud of Turin.

The Shroud of Turin isn't 'fake news'.  It's a pious forgery.  The DSS, however, are authentic.

Boru

Sure they are. And so are golden hemorrhoids.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You're right, of course.  Someone managed to lay their hands on a load of 2200 year old parchment, made their own ink out of soot, honey, water and vinegar, carefully constructed authentic-seeming reed styli, went to all the trouble of learning ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic, loaded the scrolls into a lot of clay jars (also 2200 years old), scattered some contemporaneous bronze coins about, and then managed to have a couple of semi-literate Bedouin shepherds 'discover' the scrolls in the 1940s.

I don't know how I could have been gullible enough to fall for such an obvious bit of fakery.

Boru