https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6O9KOD3AFk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLKVk2qEhw
Very much agree. I already learned to ignore them.manfred wrote:Please write something too... a few links is not really much of a topic.
manfred wrote:Please write something too... a few links is not really much of a topic.
"..They [DSS] make clear the existence of several textual traditions even in Hebrew..they(DSS) have not solved its(OT) fundamental problem..this problem is probably insoluble, and the best that can be achieved is an approximation of the text of the OT..it has numerous differences of both little and great significance when compared to the Septuagint" Some of the MSS(manuscripts) found are like the LXX others like the Samaritan Pentateuch, and some are very similar to the Masoretic text (Encyclopedia Americana). This leads scholars to think that a “proto-Masoretic” text was established by the year 100 A.D. In Cave 4, 157 fragments of biblical texts were found, among which all books of the Hebrew canon except Esther and Nehemiah. The fragments revealed differences during the transmission of the OT. For example 1-2 Samuel,Jeremiah,Exodus differ with the Masoretic tradition leading scholars to conclude the MT represents a Palestinian rewording, Jeremiah is shorter than the Septuagint version(jer33:14-26 used as prophecy for Jesus isnt found in the fragments) and it cannot be due to translation issues from the greek as the fragment is dated to the 2nd century B. C. wile work on the Septuagint version began in Alexandria around 285 B.C. which shows a different pre-Christian form of the Hebrew text was used in both cases, Exodus is longer and its form is only found in Samaritan writings. (The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: After Forty Years," America, October 31, 1987, p. 302)
The biblical manuscripts from Qumran, which include at least fragments from every book of the Old Testament, except perhaps for the Book of Esther, provide a far older cross section of scriptural tradition than that available to scholars before. While some of the Qumran biblical manuscripts are nearly identical to the Masoretic, or traditional, Hebrew text of the Old Testament, some manuscripts of the books of Exodus and Samuel found in Cave Four exhibit dramatic differences in both language and content. In their astonishing range of textual variants, the Qumran biblical discoveries have prompted scholars to reconsider the once-accepted theories of the development of the modern biblical text from only three manuscript families: of the Masoretic text, of the Hebrew original of the Septuagint, and of the Samaritan Pentateuch. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the Old Testament scripture was extremely fluid until its canonization around A.D. 100.
In the process, they even forgot how to pronounce God's name hence the use of the tetragammaton.
The written Torah was completely destroyed
There are also mention of entire pieces having been purposely burned by the corrupt elite, such as the scroll of Jeremiah Jer36:23, and even though it was re-writen later Jer36:27-32, it reveals the complete careless attitude of the comunity's most prominent figures towards sacred texts. Jeremiah, Hosea and others often lamented at their behavior and manipulations Jer8:8,Hosea4:6etc
"'How can you say, "We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD," when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?
What was shown wasthe utter carelessness of every individual as regards God's word, leading to the physical loss of the Torah
As to the 4letters name, to forget the correct pronunciation of a recurrent word which happens to be one of God's names is quite revealing as regards their carelessness.
"Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High"
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for his name alone is exalted; his splendour is above the earth and the heavens.
For the LORD Most High is awesome, the great King over all the earth.
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