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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament

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What do the Dead Sea Scrolls say about Jesus? Nothing.
What do they say about the world in which Jesus lived? Lots.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are comprised primarily of two types of texts: parts of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and sectarian works written by the small group (or groups) of Jews who lived at Qumran. The scrolls date from the mid-third century B.C.E. until the mid-first century C.E.
While the Dead Sea Scrolls do not shed light on the person or ministry of Jesus, they do illuminate practices and beliefs of ancient Judaism. SinceChristianity began as a sect of Judaism, the scrolls are very important for understanding the earliest Christians and their writings—the New Testament.
In the March/April 2015 issue of BAR, James C. VanderKam, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures in the theology department at the University of Notre Dame, examines the overlap between these two bodies of texts in his article “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament.” Dr. VanderKam was a member of the committee that prepared the scrolls for publication.
In his BAR article, James C. VanderKam explains, “The earliest followers of Jesus and the literature they produced were thoroughly Jewish in nature. As a result, the more one knows about Judaism during the time of Christian origins, the stronger basis we have for understanding the New Testament. And the scrolls are the most significant body of Hebrew/Aramaic literature related to a Jewish group or groups from roughly this time and thus are potentially invaluable for shedding light on the meaning of New Testament texts.”
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There is no reason to suggest that the New Testament authors knew any of the sectarian works discovered among <a href="http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/lawrence-h-schiffman-on-the-dead-sea-scrolls-history/" target="_blank">the Dead Sea Scrolls</a>. Further, it is quite possible that the two groups never interacted with each other. VanderKam points out that there is no overlap between the cast of characters in the scrolls and the New Testament (except for figures from the Hebrew Bible). He notes that “not even John the Baptist, who for a time lived in the wilderness and around the Jordan, not too far from the Dead Sea Scroll caves (see Luke 1:80; 3:3)” appears in the scrolls—let alone Jesus, much of whose ministry happened in Galilee.
 
The worldviews of early Christians and the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls were also starkly different. VanderKam explains, “A group that set a goal of spreading its religious message to all peoples to the ends of the earth had a very different understanding of God’s plan than ones who seem to have done no proselytizing and had no interest in bringing the nations into the fold.”
Nevertheless, there are some similarities between the two groups and their writings, which make for interesting comparisons. For example, a list of miracles appears in both Luke 7:21–22 of the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scroll known as the Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521). In Luke 7, Jesus gives these miracles to the disciples of John the Baptist as proof that he is the messiah. In the Messianic Apocalypse, which was written approximately 150 years before Luke’s Gospel, the Lord is the one who will perform these miracles. The source for both of these lists is Isaiah chapters 35 and 61. While not all of the same miracles appear in Luke 7 and the Messianic Apocalypse, the miracles that do appear in both are listed in the same order (see chart).
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Parallels between Luke 7:21–22 and 4Q521 and the parts of Isaiah from which they come.
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The curious thing is that not all of these miracles, such as “raising the dead,” appear in the passages from Isaiah, which were the source material for the lists—the prophecies being fulfilled. Yet the miracle of “raising the dead” appears in both Luke 7 and the Messianic Apocalypse right before bringing “good news to the poor.” Rather than suggesting that the writer of Luke 7 copied from—or was even aware of—the Messianic Apocalypse, this similarity suggests that both groups shared certain “interpretive and theological traditions on which writers in both communities drew.”
For VanderKam’s full analysis of this text and to learn more about the similarities and differences between the scrolls uncovered at Qumran and the New Testament, read his full article “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament” in the March/April 2015 issue of BAR.
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Muslim brags about devastating 7-man gang rape of young German virgin girl, “full of dirt and sperm”

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Muslim Rapist: “Dude we were seven guys. Some on the floor, three on the beds. They were bunk beds. Three were on top, three were below. Adim switched off the light and f***ed her. He deflowered her. She was a virgin. You must imagine that! Virgin! And we were still six guys on top of the bed, dude. And he: Bang! Bang! And we on top of the bed jumped down, she screams and of course she was fighting back and so on. And we had her legs, dude. Bang! One held her over there, the other over there, dude. And than, dude: Sinan and the others. One after another, dude. Virgin, dude! Well done, dude! I swear to you. She cried after that, she couldn’t go on any longer And we, like pigs we spit on her. Sperm and dirt all over her. We really got milked.“
Cameraman: “And you f***ed her in the a**, right?“
Muslim Rapist: “DUDE, it was a virgin! And we DESTROYED her with seven guys, dude. Didn’t f**k her a**. But not in the a** though.”
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German WOMAN Mayor Blames New Year’s Day Rapes On Victims, Says Nothing About Muslim Perverts Who Won’t Control Themselv...

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Henriette Reker, Mayor of Cologne
If this was any other group, especially a European man, he would be in jail. But if you are a leftist intent on letting barbarians rape your daughters and commiting civilizational suicide, there is no problem. From the <a href="http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/uebergriffe-in-koeln-frauen-sollen-armlaenge-distanz-zu-fremden-halten-aid-1.5669639">Deutsch RP Online (translated courtesy of Google Translate)</a>:
With a catalog of rules of conduct and the new rules that the future large events without official organizer should present security concepts, police and Cologne mayor Henriette Reker want to prevent abuses such as New Year’s Eve to become the norm.
“It is important to prevent such incidents ever happen again,” Reker said on Tuesday after a crisis meeting with the investigators. “We have heard by now, they have occurred in other cities. The course is not comforting us,” Reker said. Among other things, Hamburg had to contend with similar excesses.
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For this purpose, there should be about “codes of conduct” for young women and girls, “so that such things do not happen to them,” says Reker with respect to the sexual assaults in New Year’s Eve. There were already a code catalog, which would now be updated and will soon be available online.
Among the rules is to maintain an arm’s length distance to strangers, to stay within their own group and can not be separated from this to ask in an emergency concretely bystanders for help and intervene as a witness or to inform the police belong.
Also there should be codes of conduct for carnival “from other cultures”, “so as not to confuse here, what a cheerful behavior is in Cologne and has what with openness, particularly sexual openness has nothing to do”.Whether can be excluded by such schemes such incidents, but is questionable, it said.
 
Remember, in November 2015 the Muslim “refugees” themselves said their biggest problem was “need sex.” As if these men have any respect for the rule of law:
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Alcohol Kills Nearly 3x Time More American Each Year Than Guns

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One of the most contentious political debates in 2016 is the fight over the second amendment and gun rights. Every political candidate has been asked to weigh in over the topic and candidates are literally spending millions of dollars over this one issue alone. Recently Hillary Clinton produced a new campaign video which inspired this article:
 
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“How many people have to die before we actually act?”
Mrs. Clinton is absolutely right. How many people have to die before America stands together and takes action? Last year alone nearly 88,000 people died in America as a direct result of excess alcohol abuse:  <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm" target="_blank">www.cdc.gov</a>
In comparison only 33,000 Americans died last year from gun related violence, including terrorism: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/more-americans-have-die-from-gun-violence-than-terror-attacks-2015-10" target="_blank">www.businessinsider.com</a> 
These statistics are no anomaly. If you do your own research a quick online search will show you that alcohol kills nearly 3 times more Americans each year then guns. Still not convinced? Did you know that alcohol is the number 1 underlying cause/factor behind crime in the United States: ore harm to society than heroine, cocaine and marijuana combined: <a href="http://anonhq.com/alcohol-still-legal/" target="_blank">anonhq.com</a>  elevision ads trying to save peoples lives from the dangers of alcohol? If people like Hillary Clinton are so concerned about saving American lives why does no one talk about this issue?
It might have something to do with the fact the alcohol tax reveue nets the Unted States government 9.6 billion dollars:  <a href="http://www.statista.com/statistics/248952/revenues-from-alcohol-tax-and-forecast-in-the-us/" target="_blank">www.statista.com</a>
Where as firearm tax revenue only nets the government 123 million dollars:  <a href="http://www.statisticbrain.com/firearm-industry-statistics/" target="_blank">www.statisticbrain.com</a>
So there you have it, morality in politics is quite literally bought. The more money something makes, the more its dangers can be ignored and swept under the rug. I am using alcohol as and example to show people how society can be brainwashed into following a false narrative by manipulative political tactics. America needs to open its eyes and wake up from the stupor. If you do not want to ban alcohol, but you support banning guns you have to seriously ask yourself why people feel so strongly about this in the first place? It is nothing more then misplaced morality instilled in society by corrupt and manipulative political campaigns.
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Mysterious Mount Roraima Rising Over 8000 Feet Into The Clouds

Mount Roraima is located on a high plateau at the junction of Brazil, Venezuela and Guyan. Some people believe it’s a natural but rather unusual work of nature. Some others just say – it’s a scary thing.
There are also researchers who say it’s not a mountain but and artificially created formation. Mount Roraima has a fascinating form. It was carved from a single, monolithic and gigantic piece of rock.
Its vertical walls have smooth surfaces and the mountain’s sides form straight vertical line.
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The height of the top of the vertical walls up to 400 meters. Corner sloping ledge forms a fairly sharp upper and lower line around the perimeter.
The height of the ridge reaches 170 meters! The total height of the structure reaches 1,150 meters from its base.
In Pemon mythology, Capone and other indigenous people of South America Roraima has played an important cosmogonical role.
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In the language of Pemon Indians roroi means “blue-green”, and ma – “great”. Thus, the name “Roraima” is translated from the local dialect means “big blue-green mountain.”
According to the beliefs of Aboriginal peoples, stump is left over from the mighty tree growing all the fruits and vegetables in the world. Legendary hero Makunayma – literally means “He Works By Night” – also known as “God” or “Great Spirit” cut down the tree and the barrel fell to the ground and caused a terrible flood.
Makunaima is often said never to have been seen by mortal man.
Roraima’s cliffs can be climbed to the top and it takes approximately two days to do it. However, in the course of lifting the traveler risks falling into a cloud of dense fog, so you need to be especially careful.
Despite its mostly unusual form, Roraima Mountain is not particularly unique, because there are similar rock formations around the world.
 
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Texas Set to Ban the United Nation “Agenda 21 “

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As if I needed another reason to love my home state, but here it anyways.  The UN needs to be kicked off US soil, and any and all laws or regulations or policies that were enacted because of the UN need to be scrapped.  This organization will be the death of all national sovereignty world wide.  Which is their goal!
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The bill reads, in part, “A governmental entity may not enter into an agreement or contract with, accept money from, or grant money or other financial aid to a nongovernmental or intergovernmental organization accredited by the United Nations to implement a policy that originated in the Agenda 21 plan adopted by members of the United Nations at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in June 1992.”
Agenda 21 — so named because it sets an agenda for the 21st century — was supposed to be an exercise to promote “environmental sustainability.”
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