{"id":6890,"date":"2011-10-22T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2011-10-22T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:51:09","slug":"the-dead-sea-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/22\/the-dead-sea-scans\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dead Sea Scans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/dead_sea_scrolls.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"204\" \/>Once I had accepted employment at Cynergy Systems \u00a0in the US, I visited San Diego for a week to try and get a sense of what it would be like to live in America. While I was there I found out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_Sea_Scrolls\">Dead Sea Scrolls<\/a>, those ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the caves at Qumran, were currently on display in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdnhm.org\/\">Natural History Museum<\/a>. It was quite a special moment to be standing in front of the oldest manuscript of the Prophet Isaiah and this encounter began to foster within me a desire to learn the original languages of the Scriptures.<\/p>\n<p>Last month I <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html\">read<\/a> that, thanks to Google, there are now available <a href=\"http:\/\/dss.collections.imj.org.il\/\">five high-resolution scans<\/a> of the scrolls:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5rYj_0foJYA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know more about the Dead Sea Scrolls and their contribution to our understanding of the Bible, I would encourage you to listen to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/instituteofcatholicculture.org\/media.htm#sea\">the talk on this subject<\/a> given by Sebastian Carnazzo\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/instituteofcatholicculture.org\">Institute of Catholic Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once I had accepted employment at Cynergy Systems \u00a0in the US, I visited San Diego for a week to try and get a sense of what it would be like to live in America. While I was there I found out that the Dead Sea Scrolls, those ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the caves at Qumran, were currently on display<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[523,525],"class_list":["post-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-dead-sea-scrolls","tag-google"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7493,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}