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In soc.culture.jewish on Mon, 9 Jun 1997 03:04:24 GMT
ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace) posted:


>There are a number of books that claim there are codes in the Dead Sea
>Scrolls, but they are not the sort of codes you are writing about. The
>authors claim that there is a large amount of *jargon* in the dead sea
>scrolls, so that when read by the uninitiated they seem to mean one thing,
>but a different meaning is revealed to the initiates. Thus it is claimed
>that references to 'Galilee','Jerusalem', etc do not relate to the actual
>places of those names, but rather to specific locations in the Essene's
>settlement, so when the scrolls say 'Jesus went down to Galilee' they
>really mean 'Jesus walked to the left hand corner of the compound, next to
>the karzi'. I believe this way of interpreting the scrolls is called
>'Peshers' but I've lost significant quantities of brain cells lately so
>might be wrong. However, both the books I have read claim that the
>existence of this jargon encryption system is well known to scholars of
>early Jewish religious literature. 
>-- 
As I recall, there are NO references to Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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