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...oral tradition of Hebrew and Aramaic underlying the Greek of the written Gospels made it necessary to use rough and often clumsy Greek equivalents for Semitic concepts. Hence, the treasury of scroll literature is enabling scholars to achieve new insight into the meaning of many passages. For example, the question of what the angels sang in their well-known announcement of Jesus' birth has long bothered Biblical scholars. "And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls...
...Matrix. The scroll community called itself the people of the New Covenant or New Testament, and some of them may have become Christians after the Romans scattered them from their center on the Dead Sea. But the scholars on the ground agree that they were in no sense Christian or proto-Christian. The Essenes would probably have been the first to cry heresy at the Christian welding of all three messiahs - prophet, priest and king - to have been shocked at Jesus' attitude toward the Law, to have not understood his atoning death...
...crumbly leather-often smaller than a postage stamp-that they know will make them rich. The Jordan government has given the Ta'amireh Bedouins a cave-hunting monopoly-making the Qumran area a military zone, and policing it to keep other tribes from muscling in on the scroll rush...
...Admiral's Scroll...
...picture accompanying your Feb. 25 story on Admiral Radford shows him standing beside a scroll. This scroll [see cut] was drawn and given to the admiral by President Syngman Rhee. Its Chinese characters...