So this is criminal trolling?

//Farkers-- take notice!

He sells sea scrolls by the sea shore.

Dead Sea Scroll Scholar's Son Suspected of Shifty Shenanigans by the Sea Shore

Dead Sea Scroll Scholar's Son Suspected of Shifty Shenanigans by the Sea Shore

Dead Sea Scroll Scholar's Son Suspected of Shifty Shenanigans by the Sea Shore


Tongue twisters are easy if I just paste them into my post.

Seriously?

You know when they found the Dead Sea Scrolls? Yep, that's right.

You know how many translations have been released in all that time? Yep, right again.

ill wait for the movie to come out

NCP69: ill wait for the movie to come out

Starring Nicolas Cage or Angelina Jolie or both as archeologist car thieves?

LilDave:
Starring Nicolas Cage or Angelina Jolie or both as archeologist car thieves?

No. Sally Struthers.

Alt trolls exist on the innerwebs?

Well, crap! Who do I trust now?

Sgygus: You know when they found the Dead Sea Scrolls? Yep, that's right.

You know how many translations have been released in all that time? Yep, right again.

The late 40s-early 50s

Some of the material has been translated repeatedly. Some, specifically the contents of one cave which were held by the International School are being published basically as we write.

What's your point?

Hold your tongue when you say that.

I just rtfa and realized that I know the scholar in question (well I've never taken a class with him but I know people who have).

The scrolls were placed there by God to play a joke on biblical scholars.

attackingpencil: What's your point?

You're about as slow as the scholars doing the translations, attackingpencil.

Sgygus: attackingpencil: What's your point?

You're about as slow as the scholars doing the translations, attackingpencil.

Well it wasn't really that they were slow, it was more that the guy in charge of the team was a real dick and basically wanted to do it all himself. Since the texts got released to scholars at large it's actually gone fairly quickly. I'm pretty sure they're almost done.

I still don't get what your point is.

Astroturfing is illegal?

Academic fights are almost as much fun to watch as chick fights.

HA - I worked with the dad and his colleagues. Super blowhards, but that is to be expected, I gues.. :)

/they actually said "BRILLIANT!" while sitting around like the beer commercials
//and never saw the commercials, so it was even funnier
///i was their carry-heavy-stuff guy -_-

The biggest problem isn't the translation - a lot of the scrolls are texts from the Old Testament, so we mainly know what's contained in them (and I always found the controversy of what exactly the group at Wadi Qumran was doing more interesting anyway).

The problem was the preservation organization was fascinated with a new-fangled invention called scotch tape, and so the imbeciles taped all the fragments together. Now, in addition to fighting two millennia of deterioration, they have to combat the effects of scotch tape.

That's why you don't use your real name to argue on the Internet!

/real-life harassment to follow ...

Filial piety runs amuck once again.

On the plus side, how many times have you seen the words "filial piety" lately? I wonder how that linguistics news article which gives examples of words most likely to disappear over the next thousand years missed those two?

I took a course on the DSS from Lawrence Schiffman, so I'm getting a kick out of the replies...

UNC_Samurai: (and I always found the controversy of what exactly the group at Wadi Qumran was doing more interesting anyway).

You mean like trying to keep their work from being Vaticanized by John Strugnell?

I thought the basis of the disagreement--one writer of the scrolls or a library of writings from different sects--to be a pretty mild one to get worked up over. Maybe I didn't do so bad missing out on that academic career.

clambam: I thought the basis of the disagreement--one writer of the scrolls or a library of writings from different sects--to be a pretty mild one to get worked up over. Maybe I didn't do so bad missing out on that academic career.

I agree, honestly, it's all a lot of speculation as to the group's identity anyway. Some think it was the Essenes, or some such marginalized group (from the Pharisees who controlled the temple and the Sadducees who controlled the Sanhedrin - if I'm remembering that correctly). To me, the exact nature of the group is not as pertinent as the scrolls they left behind. The group had some wacky riffs on Judaism based on the sects own scrolls they left behind (two Messiahs etc.) in addition to the Biblical scrolls.

HowlingFrog: UNC_Samurai: (and I always found the controversy of what exactly the group at Wadi Qumran was doing more interesting anyway).

You mean like trying to keep their work from being Vaticanized by John Strugnell?

I was referring to the dispute over the origins of the cult which created the scrolls.

Sadducees had the temple, the pharasees had the Sanhedrin. There was a lot of wacky theories around that morphed Judaism towards Christianity. here, have a cave full.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?


/About as relevant to my interests

clambam: I thought the basis of the disagreement--one writer of the scrolls or a library of writings from different sects--to be a pretty mild one to get worked up over. Maybe I didn't do so bad missing out on that academic career.

Well, you got yer academics, who nitpick each other for influence and prestige, and yer Jews, who nitpick each other to get closer to the ultimately unknowable codes of sky-buddy. Put the two together and...oy.

Wow. A 49-year-old man creates defamatory material against scholars who disagree with his father?

Talk about lacking a sense of proportion.

Bah. Came for the Shinji Ikari references. Leaving disappointed.

attackingpencil: I just rtfa and realized that I know the scholar in question (well I've never taken a class with him but I know people who have).

Yeah...he has a reputation for being a jerk.

UNC_Samurai:
The problem was the preservation organization was fascinated with a new-fangled invention called scotch tape, and so the imbeciles taped all the fragments together. Now, in addition to fighting two millennia of deterioration, they have to combat the effects of scotch tape.

Not that you will read this, but there is probably a 100% chance that we have worked together. I've been sitting with a group of colleagues biatching abou texactly this, and your UNC, well, gives it away.

Do you know Charlesworth?