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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by throwaway218649 on Monday September 09, 2019 @12:18PM (#20919521)
The Dead Sea scrolls need a serious re-examination by modern scholars not biased towards mainstream Christianity, similar to the work on Jesus mythicism that has been done over the past 20 years that draws on Gnostic, Essene, and other historically contemporary sources. John Allegro's work on the Dead Sea scrolls needs a non-biased re-examination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allegro
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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by ilimilku on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:06PM (#20920668)
The Christian bias on scroll scholarship was widely corrected in the 90s with the Scrolls' public release. Since then Jewish scholarship of the Scrolls has contributed an enormous amount, cf. Lawrence Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, et al.
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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by whenchamenia on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:10AM (#20925192)
How about research unencumbered by deeply held beliefs relating to the scrolls? Jewish scholars are hardly unbiased.
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