The Dead Sea Scrolls...what are they, and why are they so important?
To understand this, you must first understand the irony of Judaism. Judaism has always placated Christianity, from the origin of the religion of the Roman cross, even until now as the Jews do not believe in a Jesus Christ. And yet, half of the Christian bible is the Hebrew bible; so that no matter how far Christians may try to distance themselves from the unbelieving Jews, they will never succeed in doing so. Christians need the Jews for theological relevance. The Jews need the Christians to avoid extermination at the hand of their Muslim neighbors. And yet the whole thing is one dramatic nod to the origin of all of this divine worship.
Kemet. Or Egypt.
What is strange about the Torah is the assertion that these books are the works of a god. The God by all accounts. But according to whom? Let us assume for a moment, that each of the books of the old testament bible are the identical translations of the Torah texts, found in the dead sea scrolls. I want us then to understand the litany of texts, or books, that were also found among these scrolls. Observe just to name a few:
- The Book of Tobit
- The Letter of Jeremiah (normally included with The Book of Baruch)
- The Book of Ecclesiasticus
Just a sample of books found among the DSS but not found in the KJV:
- The Book of Jubilees
- The Book of 1 Enoch
- from The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs
- - The Testament of Levi
- - The Testament of Naphtali
- - The Testament of Joseph
- The Book of Noah
- The Genesis Apocryphon
Note that for most of these, only very small fragments of each book were found. What should also be noted is that the book of Esther was not found among the DSS. This means that someone created the story. By whom and for what, we do not know. And yet, we are to know that divine God inspired it. I think not.
Oh my friend, I have many questions for you and I greatly anticipate your response. What is the book of Tobit? What is the book of Baruch? Jubilees? Enoch? The Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Levi, Naphtali, Joseph, Noah, The Genesis Apocryphon... all these texts found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls, and yet, they were all dismissed from the canonized bible for insufficient merit.
How is it that all of these texts would have been written together, intended by their preservers to belong together and yet modern religions have decided to separate them and label some the inerrant word of God, and others unreliable fictitious tales? Is it possible that they are all, in fact, the work of fiction and that a few celebrated men chose to elevate them to the status of divine origin?
Here is what we know. Every original civilization wrote their history in stone. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Mayans. Of these original civilizations, animal skin writings, parchments, have always been the work of foreign influences; a way to begin the process of assimilating the original tradition into foreign culture. What this then tells us, is that the so called Dead Sea Scrolls are not original. They are copies. Copies of what, is the question. And here is where things begin to get interesting for faithful Christian pilgrims.
Archaeologists have uncovered not one stone, rock or artifact belonging to the ancient Jews or Hebrews. Not one. Below are a selected list of ancient civilizations for whom the opposite has been found.
Sumeria 3200–2360 B.C.
Greece 900–200 B.C
Phonecia 1100–332 B.C
Egypt 2850–715 B.C.
Babylon 1728–1686 B.C.
Maya 1800 BCE to 250 CE.
Akkadian 2350–2230 B.C.
Every single civilization listed above has verified historical records, gravesites, bones, original authorship attributed directly to their existence at specific time and place in history. We cannot find one of the same for the so called Jews. The tale of Abraham, we find, suggests that the patriarch existed after 1800 B.C. Yet there is no trace of him. Or his sons, or his descendants. In fact, the only historical Jewish figure whom gives us some contemplative reprieve is Moses. Who was falsely advertised as being Hebrew when in fact, if he existed at all, he was most likely Ramses.
There are no ancient ruins, no ancient documents, nothing but the tales of a bunch of decayed writings on animal skin which are falling apart and date back to 150 BC or 250 BC. We don't actually know, because the tests are dealing w/ texts which are in rapid decay. That is not the point however. My point reveals a more startling truth. The point is that the oldest evidence of the Hebrew language is only found from 10 B.C.E. This means that the Hebrew language only existed in circulation for ten years. Ten years before Jesus entered the world stage. And yet, as we know, the Jews of his day did not speak Hebrew, they spoke Aramaic. How is it that an ancient people who pre dated the dawn of civilization do not even have a language to call their own?
Oh yes, this is true. But the Dead Sea Scrolls, you might say. Yes pilgrim. Even the DSS. It turns out, that the majority of the scrolls were written in Aramaic and Greek. Yes much of the DSS are Hebrew but the idea that the most ancient of writings are Hebrew are simply false. The majority of Hebrew texts found in the DSS are calendars, alphabetic characters, laws and tradition, none of which date back before 10 BC.
And yet if they were the Hebrews who brought us Abraham. If they were the Hebrews who were led out of captivity by Moses, then how is it that the earliest writings of the Hebrew legacy were not written in Hebrew, but Greek?
This is why author Norman Golb alleges in his book Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls that they were not the Essenes who were responsible for the texts, but the Jews of Jerusalem who wrote it these books as they prepared for Roman siege. I do not agree with this hypothesis either, as you will find.
In fact the oldest scrolls, carbon dated back to the time periods of 150 and 250 BCE, perhaps beyond, but they are not Hebrew texts. Now I must ask the pervading question...why, and...how, exactly is it that in these ancient texts, supposedly written before the Roman Empire, even before King David ascended the throne, could Greek texts be found amongst sacred Hebrew historical preservations of literature and artifacts? How were the Greeks even present during this time?
For we find, faithful pilgrim, that indeed, the oldest of the Dead Sea Scrolls are not in fact Hebrew, they are Greek.
This then implies that the oldest. The VERY OLDEST of Jewish religious tradition was not penned by Jews or experienced by their Hebrew ancestors, but was created by the conquering Greeks, authored by their heralded king, Alexander. I am not making this up pilgrim. Or would you care to read for yourself:
"All of the Greek texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in koine, the common dialect of the post-classical Hellenistic and Roman worlds and the New Testament language. A total of 27 Greek manuscripts have been identified from the Qumran caves. This includes all remains of 19 papyri found in Qumran Cave 7, and several Greek manuscripts preserved in Cave 4, made up of mostly biblical fragments. While the majority of the Cave 7 manuscripts cannot be identified, exceptions are a copy of Exodus and an Apocrypha work, the Epistle of Jeremiah. Attempts to identify some Cave 7 Greek fragments as Enoch are subject to debate, while attempts to identify fragments as New Testament have proven unsuccessful."- The Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
Attempts to pass off the Dead Sea Scrolls as proof that the ancient Hebrews wrote their history over three millennia ago, and that through the divine inspiration and intervention by God through human beings, it has somehow retained its original form is just this side of deception. You have been hypnotized, faithful pilgrim, by the corrupted pendulum of your fictitious authors.
Let us now further examine...for the sake of argument, let us suppose, that the earliest DSS can be carbon dated from 300 BCE. Well now that just happens to be around the same time Alexander invaded Egypt. This is not a coincidence. This is the confluence of cultures that explains why ancient Greek is included amongst the ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts that comprise the DSS.
And yet if you still are not convinced, I do not blame you one bit. Your religion resembles a cult more than it does a truth. Because when the truth stares you in the face you will still rather search for ways to explain it away so that you can go back to the church which sponsors your fallacy and enjoy companionship. The like mindedness of others who too know that the man they serve could not be a God. Yet choose to throw away reason and worship him anyway. Your salvation and patterns of influence are not of divine origin but of masonic engineering. What God would piss urine and shit feces like the rest of us?
I would flog myself if I discovered that the icon Jesus I had worshipped my whole entire life was in the Porto potty filling it up with the stench of his bowls. No man who bleeds like me could be any more than me and this is the truth. This is the illusiveness of some made up religion that fancies the man a god.
Jesus never existed in the first place. And neither did David, Solomon, the prophets, Joshua, Moses, Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. You have a bunch of fictitious characters created by the same people who created Homer's Iliad. Don't you know that they are still searching for Troy? They haven't found it and they are not going to find it. Much like everyone is looking up 3,000 years later waiting for Jesus to come back. He's not coming back because he never left in the first place, and he was never here to begin with.
I can only speculate as to the reasoning behind this creation, yet I can only do so because we've been taught it is the truth. When truly, if you read the book of Enoch, another work of fiction, yet Jewish lore, it reads like historical credulity also. But Enoch is not included. Everyone knows it is fiction. And so is the Torah, or the Old Testament. Neither is the New Testament a work of original truth or the entire bible- for it is all symbolism.
I rue those who claim that the bible is a lie and that Jesus is a lie. That Islam and Judaism are lies. Of course they are not a lie. They are literary genius, giving those who need a God other than themselves and the harmony of life itself, a purpose in this life. It is their fault they do not understand that sacrificing the quest for truth in this life for the sake of a fictitious God renders you useless in the next life, but it is their choice. Who am I to rob them of it?
If you tell me that you have found Jesus and that Jesus is the way, I will congratulate you. If this mirage keeps you from starving in this desert wasteland called life, gives your mind strength and emboldens your heart, I am with you pilgrim. We all need strength to endure.
And yet, I will not bow the knee to a prop used to illustrate the iconography of my ancestor's conquerors.
If I was a Somali pirate who succeeded in destroying the American Naval power of the Atlantic ocean, and I proceeded to the mainland to conquer the rest of the empire, yet I found there, people who looked like me, who I knew could trace their roots back to my homeland, the motherland of Kemet Afrikaa, I suppose an intellectually superior method of liberation would be to not only give these people a future in the lands I have already conquered, but to give them a history as well. For surely we Africans living in this brothel of Solomon's temple do not know our history. We do not know where we come from.
Imagine the implications of a man such as Marcus Garvey giving black people, not just a general place of pilgrimage but specific qualifications and landmarks. A purpose, a mission. A kingdom. Now imagine that specific genealogies were created as well, giving black people not just a race to claim, but an identity, a nation, a direct line back to the garden and the original man.
The ramifications would be devastating for America. The economy would lie in ruins as its largest consumer class marched out in indignation. The halls of power would be in upheaval as the war on drugs and the industrial prison complex no longer had wheels for the mill to turn. Political parties would shift, realign and disappear altogether.
Christianity itself would stand on the brink of collapse. With no tithes from the ancestors of slaves, the burden of the poor would shift to that of the preachers, turning the inner cities towards anarchy. America would crumble from within.
The Jews are a false identity of a people unsatisfied with their culture. Written by Greeks, for Greeks. They were embraced by Alexander and given a false history and therefore an engineered path to the future. There never was any mass Exodus, there never was an Israel, and there never was a temple. These tales were created to weaken an empire and enslave a nation. Egypt fell, its treasure was stolen, and the Jews were created. Rome only existed because of these people. The Roman Catholic church, the whole of Christendom owes its existence to these manufactured identities. The word "Jew" itself is not even a real word. It is an English term of Semitic depravity. It only began its introduction into the world's vocabulary after the King James Version was translated. It was inserted into the bible in the same fashion. How can a people exist long before the word itself was even created?
There are a group of African Americans here in America calling themselves Moors. They are part of an Islamic group known as the Moorish Science Temple of America. These people claim they belong to the Moorish Empire which they claim, spanned the entire globe and was the very first world empire. Nothing could be further from the truth. And yet the Moors in America are a people, who if given the right leader, would pose a serious threat to the status quo.
The trick of a fabled powerful Jewish nation has been done before. Undoubtedly it will be done again. Black people in America are not Moors because the Moorish empire was never so vast and it no longer exists. The Moors have a country and that country is Morocco not America.
Much like the black people of today, the Hebrews never had a home. To assert one for them would be a dangerous work of fiction.
The Hebrew language fell completely out of circulation by 200 AD and was not reintroduced until Israel was created by the same lineage which created the people in the first place. Guess who preserved the language? Yes pilgrim, the Roman Catholic Church. How noble of them.
I suspect, that once Alexander successfully invaded Egypt, he found men and women living in Egypt who looked like him. The Hebrews were an Afro- Asiatic people. Yet the Jews are white.
It was Alexander who is found in the text: "the Great I am" it is Alexander declaring to great Pharaoh "let my people go." It is Alexander declaring to the nations. "I am the lord your God. You shall have no other Gods before me." It was Alexander declaring "I am a jealous God" there was no voice from heaven. Only a tyrannical egomaniac.
According to author, historian and professor at Tel Aviv University Shlomo Sand, "the Jewish people were invented, from the Bible to Zionism."
"The Jews are neither a race nor a nation, but ancient pagans – in the main Berbers from North Africa, Arabs from the south of Arabia, and Turks from the Khazar empire – who converted to Judaism between the fourth and eighth centuries CE."
Could it be, pilgrim, that the religion of Judaism was created as a truth, dating back to the Greek invasion of Egypt. A way to liberate people Alexander himself could not win over to his cause; but the characters which would bring the religion to life are fictitious? That the Hebrews were a real people but they had no religion and were not a nation. If there ever were Hebrews in Egypt, they were there willingly. And if they lived in Egypt that would make them Africans. The Hebrews, therefore, are not Jews and the Jews are not Hebrews. The Hebrews are Africans, the Jews are Europeans. The Jews never existed until the invention of a Christian church.
If you do not believe these things pilgrim, I do not blame you. And yet I do not envy you either. Alexander conquered the known world so very quickly because he was the architect of monotheism. He understood that he could unify thrones under one heaven if they each worshipped the God of that heaven. They would bow to him if he positioned himself as that very God.
Egypt was the vicar of spirituality, which is why it was so necessary that he get there and destroy it. He did so through cunning, manipulation, murder and deception. And the rest of the world still worships him for it.
It is beyond folly. And yet I still believe. I believe in those who believe in these fictional creations. But I no longer believe in these creations as being legitimate claims to truth. For in fact we have been told not to. Faithful pilgrim if you still find solace in the fact that the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls can be translated almost word for word, directly into the King James Version of the bible, and you take these translations literally then I must point you directly to the very literal translation of the New Testament Galatians Chapter 4:23-24
"But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar."
And there you have it. The New Testament, explaining its origins in the Old Testament, confirming the truth of both concerning what I have been trying to tell you. These stories are only stories. Nothing more. The bible can be confirmed in one word. Allegory.
I believe this, because the bible tells me so.
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