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"You will only find what you are willing to find." If by that you mean that I am not going to listen to every asshole who thinks he found a rock that moses pissed on, you are right. People with a predisposition to believe this biblical nonsense are always finding Noah's Ark or something...

I would much rather that YOU provide such citations. I'd look myself but I've already done so and the closest thing to what you are saying is the Silver Scroll which contains two versions of a somewhat generic prayer which later shows up in the Book of Numbers in a 3d variant.

I think you are referring to Norman Golb. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385500.Who_Wrote_The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_ Golb has recently been joined by Israeli scholar Rachel Elior, and American Robert Cargill among others in suggesting that these documents - remember books were incredibly...

WHERE IS THIS OTHER EVIDENCE? Oh wait....you're going to use the fucking bible to prove itself, aren't you?

Ptolemy I built the library of Alexandria. The earliest written fragments of the septuagint appear shortly after. Do your own math on that one. Meanwhile, all that is necessary is to produce one scroll which pre-dates the septuagint and the argument vanishes. I'll wait. But not too long...

When you can produce evidence...and by evidence I don't mean trotting out the bible to testify about itself....that there was an earlier written version than the Greek than you are most certainly free to present it. I can hardly wait. Discounting all the heavenly horseshit that bible thumpers...

Of course we have no evidence that "Hebrew" was the original language. That honor falls to Greek.

I love Lewis Black, Dutch!

Temple judaism ended when the temple burned to the ground. They have reinvented themselves out of necessity but there is no reason to think that the cherry-picking activities of xtians are in any way superior to jewish scholarship on their own books.

I do wonder about the effectiveness of negative advertising. When I see a commercial announcement for any product I automatically assume that the company paying for the announcement is a lying sack of shit. The same applies to to political commercials. I vote democratic because they are a...

Because they deliberately screw it up. Call it a "vested interest." http://thejewishhome.org/counter/Isa53JP.pdf

Yeah. I particularly love it when jesus freaks take jewish writings and tell jews how to interpret them.

I was in college and studying my Roman History text when I learned that the first documented anti-semitic trouble happened in Alexandria in 40 AD. The Greco-Roman citizens of the city objected to the special treatment that the jews had gotten from Augustus and Tiberius. Mr prof...never a guy...

That should end their economic miracle, anyway.

Why don't the Canadians build their own pipeline and risk environmental catastrophe to their own country?

I wouldn't make Wiki my first choice for info. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/deadsea.html

Chris has a point.

Tough to read that, for sure.

True of the resurrection as well as the wife.

Yep. They believe their own bullshit.