Re: did the essenes exist and did they write the dead sea scrolls

wf3h wrote:
On Mar 16, 9:02 pm, Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
wf3h <w...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
interesting article in 'time' magazine from israel; a biblical
scholar is claiming that the essenes did not write the dead sea
scrolls and may never have existed at all:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.html?cnn=yes

That's the nature of history. History isn't an experimental
science. Little of the past can be verified by repeated
experiments.

As a result *all* documents are taken with a grain or two
of salt -- including the Holy Parchments (or whatever) of
various religions.

Over time a consensus tends to build. But it is slow and
not always long lasting. In the end, history is a matter
of probabilities that given events happened the way we
have them recorded. None are certain.

--


and it's remarkable some people place faith in this documents as if
they'd fallen from the sky...

And there ya have it folks. A 3 part conversation of ignorance at it's
finest.

Of course the information that "time" is presenting is an absolute truth
right?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/essenes.html

They were real.




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