Final Dead Sea scroll deciphered to reveal ancient calendar and criticism of previous scribe authors - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]One of the last remaining Dead Sea scrolls has been deciphered by researchers at the University of Haifa, with the ancient fragment [B]revealing that its author made a number of mistakes that had to be corrected by another scribe.[/B] --- Ratson and Ben-Dov found that the scroll[B] lays out the most important dates in the Qumran sect’s 364-day calendar, including the festivals of New Wine and New Oil, which are not mentioned in the Bible.[/B] It also reveals for the first time the name given to the special days on which the sect would celebrate the transition between seasons, four times a year. The days were referred to as “Tekufah”, which translates as “period”. However, they also discovered that the scroll’s author, believed to be one of the leaders of the sect, made [B]a number of mistakes, forgetting to mention several of the sacred days that the sect marked. [/B]“Accordingly, another scribe was forced to correct the errors, adding the missing dates in the margins between the columns of text,” revealed the University of Haifa. The Qumran sect was a fanatical, hermitic, persecuted group who lived in the desert, according to the university. Its calendar, said Ratson and Ben-Dov, embodied its beliefs about holiness. “The lunar calendar, which Judaism follows to this day, requires a large number of human decisions. People must look at the stars and moon and report on their observations, and someone must be empowered to decide on the new month and the application of leap years. By contrast, the 364-day calendar was perfect,” they write in the Journal of Biblical Literature. [/quote] [url]https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/26/dead-sea-scroll-deciphered-to-reveal-ancient-calendar[/url]

sounds like something out of oglaf :v:

Super interesting development! I really love hearing about new stuff about ancient texts - it's mindblowing there is still so much more to learn from what we have.

I remember seeing an Egyptian burial scroll (basically a long story explaining what good things will happen to the deceased in the afterlife) where the man who wrote down the requisite text and spells was different from the man who drew the art depicting them. There were notes written by the scribe scolding the artist for getting the sequence of events wrong and drawing in the margins. Even some thousands of years ago, writers suffered from dealing with dumb partners.

[QUOTE=eatdembeanz;53086674]I remember seeing an Egyptian burial scroll (basically a long story explaining what good things will happen to the deceased in the afterlife) where the man who wrote down the requisite text and spells was different from the man who drew the art depicting them. There were notes written by the scribe scolding the artist for getting the sequence of events wrong and drawing in the margins. Even some thousands of years ago, writers suffered from dealing with dumb partners.[/QUOTE] No matter how far back we go human nature remains the same; from the cave paintings in a high wall of a cave that were translated and just said "this is very high", to the[URL="http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm"] Pompeii graffitis[/URL] that read things like " Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!".

[QUOTE=P.;53086706]"Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!"[/QUOTE] This is the most formal "im gay" I've ever seen.

[QUOTE=P.;53086706]No matter how far back we go human nature remains the same; from the cave paintings in a high wall of a cave that were translated and just said "this is very high", to the[URL="http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm"] Pompeii graffitis[/URL] that read things like " Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!".[/QUOTE] shitposting is as old as written language itself

[QUOTE=P.;53086706]No matter how far back we go human nature remains the same; from the cave paintings in a high wall of a cave that were translated and just said "this is very high", to the[URL="http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti from Pompeii.htm"] Pompeii graffitis[/URL] that read things like " Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!".[/QUOTE] Another excerpt from the Pompeii graffiti: [quote="Exterior of the House of Menander, 8304"]Satura was here on September 3rd[/quote] As a former soldier who's read hundreds of these messages written on guard post walls during guard duties, I find it heartwarming that something like this withstood the test of time for almost 2000 years. (It's probably not related to guard duty but I'd like to think it is)

[QUOTE=P.;53086706]No matter how far back we go human nature remains the same; from the cave paintings in a high wall of a cave that were translated and just said "this is very high", to the[URL="http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm"] Pompeii graffitis[/URL] that read things like " Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!".[/QUOTE] With sentience comes shitposting

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;53087095]shitposting is as old as written language itself[/QUOTE] (gladiator barracks); 8792: On April 19th, I made bread it even has traces of WAYT in it too

[QUOTE=P.;53086706]from the cave paintings in a high wall of a cave that were translated and just said "this is very high"[/QUOTE] this is some Dark Souls message system shit if I've ever seen it.

[QUOTE]“The lunar calendar, which Judaism follows to this day, requires a large number of human decisions. People must look at the stars and moon and report on their observations, and someone must be empowered to decide on the new month and the application of leap years. By contrast, the 364-day calendar was perfect,” they write in the Journal of Biblical Literature. [/QUOTE] Eh not really correct, the jewish calendar hasn't relied on witnesses for thousands of years and even when it did rely on witnesses, it was super stringent on proof. The reason why the Jewish calendar switched over from a witness based system to the mathematical system used today wasn't because there was a problem with the witness system, it was because heretics would mess with the signal fires used to communicate that there was a new month and after a few times, the rabbis got sick of it and moved over to the mathematical system

364 days, oooh so close, if not for that pesky February,

[QUOTE=Humin;53087049]This is the most formal "im gay" I've ever seen.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=House of Orpheus, 4523] I have buggered men[/QUOTE] The duality of man.

[QUOTE=Rixxz2;53088905]With sentience comes shitposting[/QUOTE] "and with the first artist came the first art critic." -mel brooks, 'history of the world part 1'