Posted: Jul 23, 2015 1:50 pm
There is so much to question about the DSS. But I was surprised to read that the carbon dating places the parchments within a spread of two to three hundred years, not taking into account that the parchments may have been older than the writing.
Then there is the question of the motives of the sectarian authors, and what they were taking seriously or not so seriously in their various writings. And why such disparate sects and religious artifacts were stored together in caves? And how much can be questioned about the original Catholic interpretations of the texts as opposed to interpretation based on a traditional Jewish perspective.
Then there is the question of the motives of the sectarian authors, and what they were taking seriously or not so seriously in their various writings. And why such disparate sects and religious artifacts were stored together in caves? And how much can be questioned about the original Catholic interpretations of the texts as opposed to interpretation based on a traditional Jewish perspective.