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- From: ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: What did Judas betray?
- Message-ID: <lgnssgINNnve@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 20:05:36 GMT
- 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> <1egb9aINNlva@gap.caltech.edu>
- Reply-To: ncramer@labs-n.bbn.com (Nichael Cramer)
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- In article <1992Nov16.233223.19865@imagen.com>, avi@seal.imagen.com writes:
- = ... (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 !!!
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- It's also not true.
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- Sigh... why do people keep repeating this story. It's trivial to check and
- five minutes browsing of any modern published account of the Dead Sea
- Scrolls will show that this claim simply isn't true.
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- Now, it _is_ true that the main Isaiah Scroll from Q`mran is in pretty good
- agreement with the modern text, but hardly a "100% match".
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- On the other hand, the other Isaiah Scroll from Q'mran differs considerably
- from out modern text.
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