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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.messianic
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 15:19:06 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Nov5.235359.14072@imagen.com> <1992Nov10.173344.13171@bony1.bony.com> <1992Nov11.203736.12929@imagen.com> <1992Nov14.201327.14051@netcom.com>,<1992Nov16.233223.19865@imagen.com>
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- In article <1992Nov16.233223.19865@imagen.com>, avi@seal.imagen.com writes:
- = Just for comparison sake, the Jewish Bible, even though written MANY
- = centuries before, and going through many hardships was NEVER revised. The
- = proof is (Gerry Roston, are you listening ?) in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A
- = document discovered about 30+ years ago, in the Dead Sea, Judea desert in
- = Southern Israel. These scrolls were written AT LEAST 2,000 years ago, and
- = that's acceptable BY ALL archeologists and historians who worked with it.
- = And yet, when compared WORD FOR WORD with the same documents Modern Jews
- = have today (for example the scroll of the Book of Issiah which is the best
- = preserved and thus easier to read and decipher) it checks out a 100% match
- = in every word !!! Now that's an UN-revisable, One version Only, as it was
- = written, authentic document !!!
-
- That's an invalid argument. How many times has the Bible been altered
- since, say, the fourth century A.D.? How many times might the "Book of Issiah"
- (by the way, is that some Jewish document with which I'm not familiar, or is
- it a misspelling of Isaiah?) have been modified in the first few centuries
- after it was written?
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