2012 - real or not?

Thank you Tullio. Interesting. What do you know about the dead sea scrolls. Why were they kept secret by a French priest for a number of years.

Thank you Tullio. Interesting. What do you know about the dead sea scrolls. Why were they kept secret by a French priest for a number of years.

My source, the Bibbia Concordata, says that the Latin version of St.Jerome, IV century after Christ, called "Vulgata", was based on original Hebrew texts and not on the Greek version made in Alexandria of Egypt in the III and II century before Christ by 72 translators, and called therefore "Seventy".
Tullio

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Saint Paul was originally a Jew, like Christ. He eventually ended in Rome, which was the capital of an empire. Had he stayed in Palestine, the Christians would have ended like the Essenes. It was the Roman empire, with its road network and its culture, which caused the Christian faith to expand. I would advise anyone interested in the Jewish roots of Christendom to read a book by the Jewish author Robert Aron, Le annees obscures de Jesus, Paris 1960.I have an Italian edition but I don't know if it has been translated into English.
Tullio
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You know, 400 years ago mankind "KNEW" the earth was flat.
200 years ago, we "KNEW" the earth was the center of the known universe
Less than 60 years ago, we "KNEW" the entire universe was the Milky Way Galaxy.
Now take a look at what we know today, and you can't even "BEGIN" to imagine what we will know tomorrow. God-men? can't discount it. Just like the life-after-death discussions. Dark matter and dark enery just might be the "life-force" of the universe, and we (man-kind and other living organisms) might be the materialized or material form of that life-force that upon the "death" of the physical body we presently occupy, might be "returned" to that realm we refer to as dark matter and dark energy. Sounds far-fetched I know. But then, when whats-his-name said the sun was the center of the solar system a few hundred years ago, he was imprisoned for hearsay. So by all means, lock me up!

Johnney, thanks. I am a Christian but also a theoretical physicist, like the late Nicola Cabibbo, who was unjustly robbed of a Nobel prize (the Cabibbo angle was a branching point in elementary particle physics). I am not a Bible scholar and I rather prefer reading the Gospels than the Torah, not being a Jew. But the Bible is a part of our western culture, no doubt.
Tullio
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For all I know the scrolls are in Jerusalem. In Israel English is the second language and is taught in schools. Maybe they have already been translated but I have no idea if the translation is available. Giving the importance of the scrolls for the Jewish people I believe they are rather jealous of them.
Tullio
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My first curiosity of the scrolls seemed to point to the fact that some were written as much as 150 years before the supposed time of Christ. These scrolls told of the "lawgiver" and matched many of the accounts in the bible which were written as late as a 150 years after Christ.

They were held for some time by a French Priest as I recall. Can anyone comment on or correct my recollections of the first info on the scrolls.

My first curiosity of the scrolls seemed to point to the fact that some were written as much as 150 years before the supposed time of Christ. These scrolls told of the "lawgiver" and matched many of the accounts in the bible which were written as late as a 150 years after Christ.

They were held for some time by a French Priest as I recall. Can anyone comment on or correct my recollections of the first info on the scrolls.

Big help for christian brothers:

Last sunday in japan they observed this very unusual clearly Mayan-2012-ish eclipse sign!!! so any christians who are very enthuisiastic about armageddon affairs can use this fresh terrifying eclipse sign to brain wash their local communities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfVMNZY2YQc

In japan just short period ago Fukushima happened and now this eclipse this must be a clear sign!!

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Well in asia mostly non christian culture dominates so nearly 2 billion people are very dumb and live happily without any armageddon scare craps.
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Mandtugai!