#Caves of Qumran

[cyberfairyblog]

The writers on the cartoon: Okay we write a story where Whit and the gang travel to Palestine to rescue missing scientists one being them a government agent but we decided not to use the agent character who already has a established design and in main cast for a decade now :)

[peacefuldwellings]

Dead Sea Scrolls

Clay pot from the caves at Qumran, with a copper scroll in the background.

[whencyclopedia]

The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) are a collection of scrolls found in the desert east of Jerusalem on the shore of the Dead Sea. They represent the largest manuscript collections of texts from the Second Temple Period found in the area of Judah, an area notorious for its lack of manuscripts. Around 930 texts were found in 11 caves in the hills surrounding Khirbet (=ruins of) Qumran. The texts are the product of a community of Essenes who lived in the nearby ruins of Qumran and were composed between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE. They are significant because they shed considerable light on the religious and political world of late Second Temple Judaism and on the text of the Hebrew Bible.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Hi! I thought this might be a good question to ask you since you are so knowledgeable. I’m writing an epic fantasy story and I need to do some research on what life was like for Jews right before and after the destruction of the 2nd beit hamikdash because that is the basis of the setting. I would also love some information about the daily life of the kohanim at the time. Could you help me out with some reliable sources? Thanks so much!

Some aspects of Jewish life c. 1st century CE:

Economy:

Large-scale household pottery manufacture

-Pottery manufactured by Jews does not need to be ritually purified

-Certain pots began to be standardized in size, indicating importance of measurements for other industries

Expansion of oil and wine industries (hence the standardized jars)

Culture:

Stone vessels. Varying explanations, but all have to do with maintaining a distinct Jewish identity.

A new type of oil lamp- knife-pared lamp.

Dining rooms for the wealthy.

Lots of Mikvaot

Rock-cut familial burial caves

Display tombs but only in Jerusalem

Jews regarded as distinct ethnicity both by themselves and by the foreign powers

Prayer developing. Prayer distinct from Temple worship had already begun after the destruction of the first Temple, and continued into the second Temple era.

Lots of apocalyptic and messianic cults especially as the destruction of the Temple grew closer.

Spoken language is Aramaic and Hebrew

Synagogues beginning to appear

Strong relationship between the Jews of Israel and the Jews of Babylonia

Lots of Halakhic debates

Corruption within the Kohanim because of the Hasmonean power vaccuum and the Romans appointing the High Priests instead of the Jews.

Sources:

Jewish Life Before the Revolt: The Archaeological Evidence

Ethnicity and Ancient Judaism: Jewish Identities in 1st Century Alexandria and Antioch

Prayer in the Period of the Tannaim and Amoraim

Aramaic Tombstones from Zoar and Jewish Conceptions of the Afterlife

THE ORIGIN OF THE SYNAGOGUE: A RE-ASSESSMENT

‮אתא אגרתא ממערבא‬ ("An Epistle Came from the West"): Historical and Archaeological Evidence for the Ties between the Jewish Communities in the Land of Israel and Babylonia during the Talmudic Period

Were the Priests All the Same? Qumranic Halakhah in Comparison with Sadducean Halakhah

The Torah of the Jews of Ancient Rome

I'm also tagging @didyoumeanxianity because they have a lot more experience with that era (I'm more biological anthropology than cultural).

Good luck with your novel, it sounds so exciting!!

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Hanna Safieh, Caves of Qumran, 1958

[dailyunsolvedmysteries]

 In 1952, a copper scroll was found by archaeologists in a cave, along with other Dead Sea Scrolls, at the site of Qumran. As its name suggests, the writing was engraved onto a copper scroll. The scroll records a vast amount of hidden gold and silver treasure — so much, in fact, that some scholars believe that it is impossible for it to exist. 

The scroll dates back more than 1,900 years to a time when the Roman Empire controlled the Qumran area. There were a number of revolts against Roman rule at the time the scroll was written, and scientists have hypothesized that the treasure was hidden to prevent its capture by Roman forces. Whether the treasure is real, where exactly it was hidden, whether it was ever found and whether it could still exist today are all mysteries that will likely never be solved. 

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Jericho, located in the West Bank, is considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby and you can visit Qumran across Jericho.

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[aaronbleyaert]

Magic, by any other name, is just a trick

I’ve always loved magic. For as long as I can remember, I was obsessed with the likes of Jean Robert-Houdin, Penn & Teller, David Copperfield, Ricky Jay, Harry Houdini, The Amazing Randi, Lance Burton, and on and on. In high school, while other people my age were sneaking alcohol and trying to kiss girls, I was in my bedroom practicing different ways to hide a coin in my hand (between bouts of playing D&D at the local Denny’s of course). I would study books on card tricks like they were holy texts unearthed in the caves of Qumran. I used to spend hours wandering through my local magic shop trying to decide on what trick I was going to spend my hard saved money on next.

But, of course, those are all just tricks. Not real magic.

When I was kid, at the end of every grade, my mom would make me fill out this book about everything I liked and didn't like, who my friends were, what sports I played, what I was reading, watching, etc.

I hated this book.

It was always the day after the last day of school - aka the first day of summer vacation, the first day of freedom - that I had to sit down and fill out the entries in this book. All my friends, already starting their summer vacations with jubilant screams from out in the street, and here I was with The Book. It was like a toll for all the fun I was supposedly going to have that summer.

Anyway.

So I'm back home in Michigan two weeks ago, going through some old photos, and what does my mom pull out of the cabinet... But The Book.

It was incredible. Truly.

So many years, so many tiny forgotten details, all right there at my fingertips. Absolutely unreal. Some things (Favorite TV show: Quantum Leap) I remembered; other things (Favorite Movie: Monster Squad) were an absolute epiphany.

Magic. Real magic.

This was the kind of thing I had been searching for, all those years when I was younger; but instead of the ability to read someone's mind, or pour endless amounts of water from a small plastic jug, what I got was a whole host of forgotten knowledge about Past Me, paid for in full from all those First Days of Summer I spent angrily scribbling my favorite things down through the years.

It's so weird - when I was a kid, all I wanted was to be somebody else. Somebody else, living somewhere else. To shout some arcane word or mutter an unholy phrase and instantly transform myself and my life into something exciting.

But now that I am somebody else living somewhere else, someone with a life that sometimes feels exciting, I find myself thinking more and more about who I used to be - and wishing I could open a portal back through time to who I was then. Wishing, again, that I knew how to perform magic. And finding this book did just that.

So if you're wanting to be somebody else, or be somewhere else, start by writing down everything about who you are now - but only the little stuff. The daily things that you find boring and wish you could forget. The small pleasures that make you smile but aren't big enough to make a ripple in your week. I promise you, that in three months, six months, a year, five years - you will realize that it all has changed: That you are a different person, living a different life. The only constant in this world is that it's always changing - whether you realize it or not. Life only happens when you look away. It might only feel like a moment, but when you look back, it will feel like forever.

Abracadabra.

[queerbiblestudy]

So an Ineffable Husbands S2 Fic sent me to find The Book of Tobit, and the summary says god sent Raphael “in disguise” to be The Angel of the Day

“When Tobiah is attacked by a large fish as he bathes, Raphael orders him to seize it and to remove its gall, heart, and used liver because they make ‘useful medicines.’”

“The book makes Tobit a relative of Ahiqar, a hero of Near Eastern folklore.”

HA! THIS IS FOR THE EAST! 😙

“Written in Aramaic, the original of the book was lost for centuries. The Greek translation, existing in three different recensions, is our primary source. In 1955, fragments of the book in Aramaic and in Hebrew were recovered from Cave IV at Qumran.”

[drjacquescoulardeau]

THE JEWS IN QUMRAN

Robert Eisenman is an adventurer who goes around and finds treasures in caves. His specialty is the scrolls in old Hebrew he found in the caves around the Dead Sea, the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, and today it is accepted that they must have been written and deposited in these caves in the late half of the first century BCE and the first half, a little bit more probably, of the first century AD. The Teacher of this group seemed to be James, Jesus’s own brother, who was assassinated by the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem in the most horrible way you could imagine. He was thrown over the walls and obliged to undress completely, which is unacceptable in Jewish ethics. Then he had to dig his own vertical tomb, was set in it, the head over the ground, buried up to the neck, and then stoned and abandoned to die of thirst.

These documents show a perfect continuity with the Old Testament, which is not surprising, but also with the New Testament and the Gospels, which proves the continuity between Judaism and Christianity.

For me, the most surprising element is the presence, and very well developed what’s more, of the zealot ideology, a dogmatic vision of what Jews are supposed to be, absolutely dominated by and submissive to the Torah. Total fundamentalism that goes along with the elimination of those who are not perfect Jews, who are not even Jews at all like the Gentiles and the Arabs. This zealot ideology is very present in Islam, but it is also present in Judaism and even if in more subtle words in the modern world in Christianity. The three Abrahamic religions have inherited this from the old Torah tradition and the three religions have integrated it into their general preaching.

A phenomenal piece of heritage that gives you cold shivers along your spine. We can really be worried about this, about the future of our world.

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Dead Sea Scrolls (Religi),  *  Dogmatism (epistemology),  *  Qumran,  *  The Fourth School of Philosophy Zealots

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In this 12-lecture series, you will join one of the world's leading experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls in a fascinating journey through the history and significance of these astounding documents. You will gain a solid understanding of what the scrolls actually are and of the community associated with them. You will begin with the discovery of the manuscripts in 11 caves near the remains of Khirbet Qumran, a place where the people who possessed the scrolls attempted to live by the teachings in them. You will survey the physical layout and the archaeology of Qumran while learning about its history and the identity of the people who used it.

[cyberfairyblog]

I haven't been posting jasonessa lately so here's them in the Caves Of Qumran. It's totally a jason episode ♥

One thing i want to explore more is their dynamic outside romance. So they have their flaws like all couples do. When adventure calls Jason will run right towards it, even if it mean dipping back into his recklessness. Meanwhile Vanessa is anxious and prefers staying where it's safe, even if it denies herselfthe chance to step out of her confort zone. While she does have a taste for adventure, at this point she hasn't fully conquered her fears and Jason is fed up with her clingy attitude.

[yhwhrulz]

Worthy Brief - September 2, 2024

Understand the events taking place!

As we approach the end of the age we are overwhelmed with the amount of evidence of the reliability and accuracy of the Bible. In the last century, archaeological discoveries have significantly reinforced the Bible's credibility. A pivotal moment was in 1947 with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an event whose significance was underscored with the timing of the reestablishment of the nation of Israel.

Let me take you back to 1947: a Bedouin named Mohammed ed-dib discovers ancient scrolls in a cave near Qumran. After this initial find, even more scrolls are discovered and in November of 1947, some of the scrolls are sold to Professor Eliezer Sukenik, a professor of archaeology at Hebrew University. The significance of the timing of these events should not be overlooked. Professor Sukenik writes in his journal:

“While I was examining these precious documents in my study, the late news on the radio announced that the United Nations would be voting on the resolution that night—whether or not Israel would be allowed to become a nation… It was past midnight when the decision was announced while I was engrossed in a particularly absorbing passage in one of the scrolls, and my son rushed in with the shout that the vote on the Jewish State had passed. This great event in Jewish history was thus combined in my home in Jerusalem with another event, no less historic, the one political, and the other cultural.”

The very day the first Dead Sea scrolls were purchased and the 2000-year-old parchments containing prophecies of Israel's restoration to the Land were being read, the UN General Assembly was casting votes to decide whether Israel would become a modern nation, and decided in its favor. As God providentially unveiled the documentation of Israel's ancient history through the discovery of the scrolls, the very words of those scriptures were being fulfilled concerning the nation's future rebirth!

The Isaiah scroll, now the earliest known copy of this ancient prophetic book, contains numerous predictions of the regathering of the Jewish people to the Land and the restoration of their nation:

Isaiah 11:11-12 In that day the Lord will extend his hand yet a second time to recover the remnant that remains of his people, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea. He will raise a signal for the nations and will assemble the banished of Israel, and gather the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

This prophetic fulfillment, evident to everyone, is a clear and powerful sign of God's sovereignty over History, and of the reliability of our Scriptures!

Are you in doubt that God is in control? Have no doubt, nor fear of the enemy who is plotting to “rob, kill, and destroy” … for just as the scriptures proclaim the restoration of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland … they proclaim the Kingdom of God is coming that shall never pass away!

Your family in the Lord with much agape love,

George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Missouri) (Baltimore, MD)

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[whencyclopedia]

The Monastic Movement: Origins & Purposes

In 313 CE, Constantine the Great (272 – 337 CE) ended the sporadic-yet-terrifying Christian persecutions under the Roman Empire with his “Edict of Milan,” and brought the Christian church under imperial protection. Not surprisingly, public social activities and normative culture changed, quite dramatically and favorably, for the early Christians. Previously, early Christians faced dangers from outside of the faith and often had to “worship underground,” in order to avoid both physical dangers and social oppression from various Pagan and Jewish factions in the first three centuries of the faith. However, after Constantine's imperial endorsement and favoritism for Christian leaders and the laity, a new cultural permissiveness and secularism arose within the faith; and pious believers began to worry more about inner church immorality, abuse, and vice.

Beginning of the MOnastic Movement

Gonzalez writes, “The new privileges, prestige and power now granted to church leaders soon led to acts of arrogance and even to corruption” (143). As such, many in the primative Jesus movement sought a different, less secular, more purist environment in which to pursue their spirituality. MacCulloch states, “It was hardly surprising that the sudden sequence of great power and great disappointment for the imperial Church in the West inspired Western Christians to imitate the monastic life of the Eastern Church” (312). Thus began the official monastic movement in the West.

This Christian monastic lifestyle was simple at first, but, as is common to all societies, its routine became more and more convoluted and variegated with each passing century. One could find monks and nuns in caves, in the swamp, in a cemetery, even 12 metres (40 feet) up on stylite - all proclaiming God's calling and affirmation of their personal lifestyles. Eventually, specific rules and over-arching regulations were developed by the church institution to align all the numerous, specific groups into healthier, more consistant expressions of Christianity in the monastic movement.

The origin of the monastic movement begins in the 3rd and 4th centuries, CE, in the deserts surrounding Israel. As Nystrom notes,

Scholars have searched widely for the antecedents of Christian monasticism, hoping to find its pre-Christian roots in such possible points of origin as the Jewish Essene community at Qumran near the Dead Sea and among the recluses associated with the temples of the Egyptian god Sarapis. Thus far, no clear links have ben established to these or any other groups (74).

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[reasonedcasesforchrist]

What You Have

Once again, this post is a tad on the lengthy side so please bear with me.You have the Old Testament, proven to be accurately transmitted for over 2000 years via the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts discovered in the Qumran Caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. These scrolls are significant for several reasons,…

[ramrodd]

COMMENTARY:

Their is a vital connection between Dr. McDonald's description of Homer as a gnostic cult in Plato's Cave and Molly Worthen's Resurrection epiphany , I didn't know this about Homer in these specific terms, but I'm not surprised. I have studied Number as a figure of speech since my freshman year at Indian University just before the draft call ups for Vietnam began in July, To say I studied it is far more systematic than what I actually have done, which is more like doing cross word puzzles,

I'm dyslectic, I am a charter member of DAM: Mothers Against Dyslexia, I didn't know what it was but a graduate student taking a freshman finite math course noticed it in conversation and suggested I learn how to do numerology as a method to mitigate the effect of dyslexia. And it helps. It makes me mindful of my thinking and behavior. For reasons that have to do with DC before the Reagan people fucked things up, I could have earned a comfortable living as a psychic counselor reading cards and doing numerology, Among other things, I was a disciple of a serious psychic for Richmond, Virginian, who was connected in various ways to Edgar Cayce

this stuff Jesus is doing in the Gospel of Mark is Wicca and, when I got back from Vietnam in 1971, DC is the place where the Woodstock Nation had determined to put down roots. It was the most racially mellow city in the world. The only thing more racially mellow in my experience was on a relay landing zone with a combat Battalion coming out of the woods and toking up with Jimi Hendrix going cross town, waiting for the slicks to come take us to a 5 day stan down.

So, all this New Age DEI Human Potential vibe was in the air and the only people who didn't share in the whole Jimmy Buffet/Chuck Brown/Bob Marley groove of it was the Plumbers and other white supremacists of the John Birch Society, I could have had a job in the Nixon White House but I was on a different career path, number one, and, number two, I didn't want to have to work with white supremacist thugs like Pat Buchanan and G. Gordon Liddy and Chuck Colson, Before the Reagan people came to town, they were largely avoidable, Since January 20, 1981, not so much,

In spite of Family Ties, it was never Kool to be Conservative. My point is that I know a lot about the numerology of the Bible that has a direct connection to what Dr MacDonald is talking about and what happened to Molly worthen, The problem with the Critical Historic Analysis of the Post Modern Historic Deconstruction is that both the Jesus Seminar and the Pro-Live Solo Scriptura Evangelicals ignores all these mechanisms of literature because you cannot find the DNA of Jesus in the dried up shit they dig out at Kur Qumran latrines.

Here's the insight I have to pass on : In terms of the numerology of the New Testament, Luke is wholly Homeric in origin: among other things: it has 24 chapters, the number of the letters in the Greek Alpha bet, just like the Iliad and the Odyssey, And it is my conviction that Matthew and Acts anticipates Mohammad, with 28 chapters, the number of letters in the Arabic alphabet.

And if you need an example of the Holy Spirit guiding the pen of any author in the 66 books of the Palestine Bible, the Gospel of Luke is had to beat.