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No scrolls found though.

by olavk 10y ago

themodelplumber 10y ago
Yeah, despite reading the article I don't get the HN-front-page significance. I'd be tempted to guess this is more of a PR thing than a substantive find.
- moomin 10y ago
  There's two things: 1) it's the first time anyone's found anything beyond the initial discovery 2) it's in the wrong place, which is huge.
  - gpvos 10y ago
    This article doesn't seem to mention that it's in the "wrong" place. (How is that defined anyway?) The HU article linked in another comment does seem to hint at that a little.
    - webmaven 10y ago
      Basically, it's not in any of the 11 caves that the Bedouins who were selling the DSS said that the DSS came from.
  - jnordwick 10y ago
    They've been finding scrolls for years even as far North as Jericho. Hopefully this finally put to death the Essene theory. Norman Golb's book Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls details the findings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls%3F&_%28book%29= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_D...
khazhou 10y ago
IIRC there was just one fragment of a scroll found years ago, with the cryptic message: "koyìsˀərun χàd ləwaþ χàd va" Which loosely translates to: "Will anyone really believe this stuff?" It's unclear what it was referring to.
- jeffcoat 10y ago
  I choose to believe it's a prophecy, foretelling the coming of a Universal search engine that will someday make that joke stop working.
  - kaeluka 10y ago
    All hail the universal search engine!
- deleted 10y ago
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- kej 10y ago
  >koyìsˀərun χàd ləwaþ χàd va For anyone curious, this is actually part of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: >All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
bluejekyll 10y ago
They were taken to the Vatican and stored with all the other documents from pre 300 in a room marked, "est realis historia".
- paxcoder 10y ago
  The one guarded by lizard people?
judah 10y ago
No scrolls found because they were stolen: >> "Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we ‘only’ found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen." -Dr. Gutfield

No scrolls found though.

by olavk 10y ago

No scrolls found though.

Yeah, despite reading the article I don't get the HN-front-page significance. I'd be tempted to guess this is more of a PR thing than a substantive find.

moomin 10y ago
There's two things: 1) it's the first time anyone's found anything beyond the initial discovery 2) it's in the wrong place, which is huge.
- gpvos 10y ago
  This article doesn't seem to mention that it's in the "wrong" place. (How is that defined anyway?) The HU article linked in another comment does seem to hint at that a little.
  - webmaven 10y ago
    Basically, it's not in any of the 11 caves that the Bedouins who were selling the DSS said that the DSS came from.
- jnordwick 10y ago
  They've been finding scrolls for years even as far North as Jericho. Hopefully this finally put to death the Essene theory. Norman Golb's book Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls details the findings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls%3F&_%28book%29= https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who_Wrote_The_D...

khazhou 10y ago

IIRC there was just one fragment of a scroll found years ago, with the cryptic message: "koyìsˀərun χàd ləwaþ χàd va" Which loosely translates to: "Will anyone really believe this stuff?" It's unclear what it was referring to.

jeffcoat 10y ago
I choose to believe it's a prophecy, foretelling the coming of a Universal search engine that will someday make that joke stop working.
- kaeluka 10y ago
  All hail the universal search engine!
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kej 10y ago
>koyìsˀərun χàd ləwaþ χàd va For anyone curious, this is actually part of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: >All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

bluejekyll 10y ago

They were taken to the Vatican and stored with all the other documents from pre 300 in a room marked, "est realis historia".

paxcoder 10y ago
The one guarded by lizard people?

judah 10y ago

No scrolls found because they were stolen: >> "Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we ‘only’ found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen." -Dr. Gutfield