Google Launches Dead Sea Scrolls online

It is a good thing that Google has decided to put its billions of dollars into exposing the truth about the Scriptures. The churches had refused to entertain the notion that they have been wrong all along; by putting thousands of the Old Testament scriptures online, Google has finally revealed that the Ancient Aramaic is the official scribal language of the Scriptures. Although the Scriptures were transcribed in the Hebrew script a few centuries ago, the original language of the Scriptures was Ashurit, the language invented in Nineveh around 800 B.C. Notice the dates indicated in the paragraph from the Google project below:

"The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE when they were hidden in caves to prevent the Roman armies from discovering them. That they survived so long is incredible." (Google Dead Sea Scrolls Project)

The Scriptures were hidden from most rulers. The work of prophets and scribes, they were recorded in secret and maintained for centuries for the sake of the faithful believers.

"Due to the age of the documents, and the fact they have been written on parchment and papyrus, it’s understandable the fragile originals are kept at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem in a sealed container. If you want to see them, until now you had to go visit. Gaining access to the original texts has now become a lot easier due to a new project launched by Google called the Dead Sea Scrolls online. Five of the scrolls have been digitized using high resolution 1,200 megapixel photographs captured by renowned photographer Ardon Bar-Hama." (Google Project)

Indeed, for the first time, they have been photographed, digitized and placed in a program were each word can be scrutinized and translated accurately into multiple languages. Of course, the translators must be not only familiar with Ancient Aramaic, they have to be scholars of the language. Where is one going to find scholars of the Ancient Aramaic language without national or religious bias?

"As well as being able to view the texts in great detail, there’s also a translation feature on the site presenting the original Hebrew in English. There’s also a search feature based on keywords and passages from the text, and you can leave comments for others to read." (Google Project)

This comment demonstrates the ignorance of the writer; the Scriptures were recorded in the Ancient Aramaic language (Ashurit), not in Hebrew. The "original Hebrew" was the Ancient Aramaic language. This was the language of the Jewish scribes.

"Google is taking care of hosting all the data for this project in its ongoing bid to make the world’s information accessible to all. Behind the website and high resolution images you will find Google Storage and Google App Engine hard at work serving up the data for what must already be a very popular destination." (Google Project)

Here is the Google statement: "It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and historians, and the advent of the Internet to make the Dead Sea Scrolls accessible to anyone in the world. Today, as the new year approaches on the Hebrew calendar, we’re celebrating the launch of the Dead Sea Scrolls online; a project of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem powered by Google technology." (Google)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are not the oldest recorded Scriptures, not by a long shot. First of all, the Dead Sea Scrolls were not copied by the competent scribes of the day. The Dead Sea Scrolls, for the most part, were the work of monks living in caves. Second, the Dead Sea Scrolls are not the oldest Texts. The Scriptures are thousands of years older. The Law and the Prophets date back to before the Babylonian Captivity. Here, we're not even talking about the fact that the scribes at the time of Eashoa (Jesus) had an authentic and error free version of the Scriptures. These were what Eashoa (Jesus) read from at the synagogues of Judea and Galilee.

"Written between the third and first centuries BCE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence. In 68 BCE, they were hidden in 11 caves in the Judean desert on the shores of the Dead Sea to protect them from the approaching Roman armies. They weren’t discovered again until 1947, when a Bedouin shepherd threw a rock in a cave and realized something was inside. Since 1965, the scrolls have been on exhibit at the Shrine of the Book at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Among other topics, the scrolls offer critical insights into life and religion in ancient Jerusalem, including the birth of Christianity." (Google)

Obviously the Dead Sea Scrolls may have been "written between the third and the first centuries," but they weren't "the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence." The Ancient Aramaic manuscripts of the Ancient Church of the East were the oldest and are still the oldest in existence, having survived all the efforts of their enemies and the Western churches to destroy them and discredit them.

"Now, anyone around the world can view, read and interact with five digitized Dead Sea Scrolls. The high resolution photographs, taken by Ardon Bar-Hama, are up to 1,200 megapixels, almost 200 times more than the average consumer camera, so viewers can see even the most minute details in the parchment. For example, zoom in on the Temple Scroll to get a feel for the animal skin it's written on—only one-tenth of a millimeter thick." (Google)

That is how the Bibles were distorted after the 15th Century when the Guttenberg Press made the Latin Vulgate accessible to everyone to "read and interact with." One can zoom in as much as he or she likes, but if they can't read the words or even pronounce them properly, how are they going to understand them?

"You can browse the Great Isaiah Scroll, the most well known scroll and the one that can be found in most home bibles, by chapter and verse. You can also click directly on the Hebrew text and get an English translation. While you’re there, leave a comment for others to see."

Again, the article attempts to mislead the reader: "You can click directly on the Hebrew text..." -- it's not Hebrew. It's Ancient Aramaic. Now that we have the 1200 mega-pixel photographs, no one will be able to deny the fact that the Text of Isaiah is all in the Ancient Aramaic language and in the same Ashurit script as that of Nineveh at the time of Jonah.

"The scroll text is also discoverable via web search. If you search for phrases from the scrolls, a link to that text within the scroll viewers on the Dead Sea Scrolls collections site may surface in your search results. For example, search for [Dead Sea Scrolls "In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow"], and you may see a link to Chapter 17:Verse 11 within the Great Isaiah Scroll."

So the distorted version of Isaiah will be reinforced every time someone does a search for any of the familiar texts and reads the mistranslated verses of the archaic English language version.

"This partnership with The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, is part of our larger effort to bring important cultural and historical collections online. We are thrilled to have been able to help this project through hosting on Google Storage and App Engine, helping design the web experience and making it searchable and accessible to the world.... We hope you enjoy visiting the Dead Sea Scrolls collection online, or any of these other projects, and interacting with history at your fingertips." (Posted by Eyal Miller, New Business Development and Eyal Fink, Software Engineer, Israel Research and Development Center)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are, indeed, an important discovery. They will dramatically alter the image of Christianity as an esoteric religion having evolved from Judaism. The fact that Isaiah was prophesying about Eashoa (Jesus) can no longer be denied. However until today, the Dead Sea Scrolls remained behind locked doors and accessible only to a narrow band of incompetent translators with absolutely no hope of ever finding out what the scrolls said and a group of phony archeologists without the desire to reveal the truth about the prophecies of Isaiah.

So again, thanks to Google, we will be able to ascertain the truth finally. Read more about the Dead Sea Scrolls and what language they were originated in.

Oct. 22, 2011

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