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dipsydoodle

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8. A 2000 year document

Reply to Fearless (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 07:34 AM

Dec 2012

some of which is in fragments. Even fragments have digitally recorded for the benefit of scholars who devote their time to piecing them together sometimes using only the pen strokes of the Hebrew letters to identify the author.

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Google launches Dead Sea Scrolls online library [View all] Omaha Steve Dec 2012 OP

After "MORE than six decades"? So it took them THAT long to edit them to conform to their Purveyor Dec 2012 #1

Edit them? Umm... no. Fearless Dec 2012 #5

A 2000 year document dipsydoodle Dec 2012 #8

Well it now has the eyes of the world on it. Feel free to find flaws. Fearless Dec 2012 #11

The past can always be improved upon ... JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2012 #9

It's so cute watching people pretend they understand anything about a topic. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2012 #6

Thanks for sharing goclark Dec 2012 #2

What? No Bhagavad Gita online? Canuckistanian Dec 2012 #3

How do you want the Bhagavad Gita? csziggy Dec 2012 #10

That's amazing! Fearless Dec 2012 #4

Cool! Sherman A1 Dec 2012 #7