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In soc.culture.jewish on Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:07:57 GMT
ch...@transdata.co.nz (Chris Grace) posted:

>mei...@erols.com wrote:
>: In soc.culture.jewish on Tue, 10 Jun 97 10:19:02 GMT Robert Billing
>: <uncl...@tnglwood.demon.co.uk> posted:

>: >In article <5ngbgh$o...@winter.erols.com> mei...@erols.com  writes:

>: >> As I recall, there are NO references to Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

>: > Since, IIRC, they were written about 100 years before JC was born,
>: >this is not surprising, in the same way that it is not surprising that
>: >Babbage did not write Java.

>: I know you weren't intending to make me look silly.  I only posted
>: what I did in answer to another who implied otherwise.  

>: She wrote: "so when the [dead sea] scrolls say 'Jesus went down to
>  ^^^ not
Sorry Chris.  My only good friend named Chris is a woman.
>: Galilee' they really mean 'Jesus walked to the...'"  Somewhere she got
>: the idea that this statement was in the DSScrolls.  I appreciate your
>: confirming that Jesus of Nazereth is not mentioned there.

>Actually I was using a (very bad) example, which I did not express very
>well, and you have managed to nitpick on that score and miss the main
>point of my post, which was:

>Many ancient Jewish documents include a jargon-like code which allows them
>to convey a different message to the non-initiated than to the initiated.

>Is that better?
Yes, much.  I don't know anything about what you say here, but the
thing I wrote about was not a nit from my point of view.
No harm done.  Everything is cool now, I hope.
>If I had read the headers to the posting I responded to from
>alt.folklore.urban and realised the erudite company who were contributing
>to this thread, I would probably have kept my childish musings to myself
>in any event.
If you mix erudite musings and childish musings I think you get a salt
and water, or something like that, or maybe blue smoke.   Whatever,
the water is warm, plunge in. 
>Chris 'fufas' Grace   Somewhere south of the equator and north of antarctica
New Zealand.  Cool.  I just read in the daily paper that the Maoris
are taking up tattooing again. E-mail me if this is worth noting.

P & M 

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