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  • "Essenes wrote Dead Sea Scrolls?"

    I was surprised to see Slate's deputy editor David Plotz asserting as fact (rather than a hotly disputed topic of controversy) that ''Essenes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls.'' As is now well known, an entire series of major historians and archaeologists have concluded that Khirbet Qumran was never inhabited by any sect, that the scrolls are the ...
    Posted to The Chat Room by View from Here on February 24, 2008

  • Re: "Jesus gave the US democracy," etc.

    For an interesting article on this religious idiocy, see: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/jesus-judas-and-dead-sea-scrolls-peddling-religious-sensationalism-america
    Posted to Politics by View from Here on December 13, 2007

  • Peddling religious sensationalism

    There's an interesting article on this topic, situating Romney in the context of a variety of fraudulent claims currently being made about a number of religious and scientific issues, here: http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/jesus-judas-and-dead-sea-scrolls-peddling-religious-sensationalism-america
    Posted to The Big Idea by View from Here on December 13, 2007