Hey Silverhorner's welcome back to The View From Silverhorn Mountain! It's a beautiful August day on top of old Silverhorn.
Well, better brush up on your Hebrew, because the moment you have all been waiting for is almost upon us. Yup, you guessed it, the Dead Sea Scrolls are going to be published online for us all to read....FINALLY!! I have been wanting to have a go at translating the scrolls since I first heard of them.
Now, these things are going to need special handling because they are supposed to be about 2000 years old...which I sure will make for enthralling reading. It's kind of like finding an old Simpsons-Sears Catalogue in the attic. There is something kind of fun about reading how much a bra and bloomers sold for 2000 years ago.
According to the article in The Globe and Mail, the first scrolls were discovered by accident in 1947 by a young Bedouin shepherd who was chasing a runaway sheep. It doesn't say why the sheep was running away, but I have my suspicions...the desert nights are long and lonely if you get my drift....
According to legend, and perhaps fact, they were buried in a cave in Qumran, just above the Dead Sea...oh..yeah...I get it now, that's why they call them the Dead Sea Scrolls....Well those Bedouin shepards are not dumb, they knew they were on to a good thing when archeologists started buying these old scroll and pieces of scrolls. It was like selling old skin magazines...and the archeologists had that same look on their faces as the people who buy old skin magazines.....
Experts have been reading and studying these scrolls since they were first discovered, but as far as I can tell, they haven't really figured out what they say. Sure there are lots of experts coming up with what they say they say but c'mon...how do we really know? I think that is why they are now putting them online for the rest of us to take a stab at figuring out what they say. It's been over 60 years since they started looking at these things...and still nothing world changing has come from them, it might be time to look for another line of work.
I dunno about you, but I'm thinking it could be just a bunch of old menus from the first seafood restaurant, which of course wouldn't have stayed in business very long, situated as it were, on the Dead Sea...
If you haven't got a computer, don't worry, I think the paperback will be out in the early fall....
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