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Archaeologists and antiquity experts are kicking up their heels and dancing the hullabaloo with excitement. They are standing on street corners and shouting “hosanna” to annoyed Japanese tourists just trying to take pictures of each other sticking their tongues out. These scholars are throwing hors d’oeuvres at one another and screaming, “I’m not it.”
A secret encounter with a Bedouin ex-hockey player in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old-parachment scroll that he happened to be selling out of the back of his camel. This is the first such finding in decades an Israeli archaeologist claimed. The excited archaeologist then popped a pig-in-the-blanket into his mouth and started doing pinwheels.
The finding has given rise to hope that the Judean Desert may yield even more treasures than last year’s discovery that Irving Berlin was a Jewish section of Germany. The two small pieces of brown animal skin, inscribed in Hebrew with verses from the Book of Leviticus, are from “refugee” caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea where Jews hid from the Romans and their aunt Ida in the second century. The pieces of brown animal’s skin also had a “Kosher for Purim” stamp signed by a defrocked Rabbi.
The scrolls are being tested by Israel’s Antiquities Authority. Recently, several relics bearing inscriptions, including a burial box purporting to belong to Jesus’ brother James and Jesus’ own skate key, were revealed as modern forgeries. “No scrolls have been found in the Judean Desert” in decades. “The common belief has been that there’s nothing left to find there.” Biblical scholar Steven Pfann said, “What’s interesting and exciting is that this is a new discovery and is the first time we’ve seen anything from the south since the 1960s. Besides, a boxed-set of Hee-Haw reruns.”
The finding constitutes the 15th scroll fragments found in the area from the same period of the Jewish “Bar Kochba” revolt against the Romans, and the first to be discovered with verses from Leviticus. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by the Esseness and punched up by Neil Simon. The Esseness, were a monastic sect seen by some as a direct line between Judaism and early Christianity. The scrolls comprise more than 1,000 ancient tracts found a half century ago in the caves above Qumran in the West Bank, one of the most significant discoveries in the Holy Land.
There are some archaeologist skeptics who doubt the authenticity of the new find. They point out that attached to the two fragments was an Ice Capades ticket. Let’s all hold our breaths.
A secret encounter with a Bedouin ex-hockey player in a desert valley led to the discovery of two fragments from a nearly 2,000-year-old-parachment scroll that he happened to be selling out of the back of his camel. This is the first such finding in decades an Israeli archaeologist claimed. The excited archaeologist then popped a pig-in-the-blanket into his mouth and started doing pinwheels.
The finding has given rise to hope that the Judean Desert may yield even more treasures than last year’s discovery that Irving Berlin was a Jewish section of Germany. The two small pieces of brown animal skin, inscribed in Hebrew with verses from the Book of Leviticus, are from “refugee” caves in Nachal Arugot, a canyon near the Dead Sea where Jews hid from the Romans and their aunt Ida in the second century. The pieces of brown animal’s skin also had a “Kosher for Purim” stamp signed by a defrocked Rabbi.
The scrolls are being tested by Israel’s Antiquities Authority. Recently, several relics bearing inscriptions, including a burial box purporting to belong to Jesus’ brother James and Jesus’ own skate key, were revealed as modern forgeries. “No scrolls have been found in the Judean Desert” in decades. “The common belief has been that there’s nothing left to find there.” Biblical scholar Steven Pfann said, “What’s interesting and exciting is that this is a new discovery and is the first time we’ve seen anything from the south since the 1960s. Besides, a boxed-set of Hee-Haw reruns.”
The finding constitutes the 15th scroll fragments found in the area from the same period of the Jewish “Bar Kochba” revolt against the Romans, and the first to be discovered with verses from Leviticus. The Dead Sea Scrolls were written by the Esseness and punched up by Neil Simon. The Esseness, were a monastic sect seen by some as a direct line between Judaism and early Christianity. The scrolls comprise more than 1,000 ancient tracts found a half century ago in the caves above Qumran in the West Bank, one of the most significant discoveries in the Holy Land.
There are some archaeologist skeptics who doubt the authenticity of the new find. They point out that attached to the two fragments was an Ice Capades ticket. Let’s all hold our breaths.
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