World’s Best-Preserved Ten Commandments Scroll Goes on Display Today in NYC
- Posted on December 16, 2011 at 6:59pm by
Billy Hallowell
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It’s been a big year for the Dead Sea Scrolls. In November, the Blaze reported on major developments in efforts to determine the religious texts’ definitive authors. Now, a new exhibit called “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Time,” which will feature a piece of the oldest complete example of the Ten Commandments. These amazing artifacts will be shown in New York City’s Discovery Times Square exhibit space.
This particular portion of the Ten Commandments is on leather parchment and dates back 2,000 years to between 50BC to 1AD. It is a portion of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which account for nearly 900 manuscripts that were discovered between 1947 and 1956 inside of caves in Qumran (West Bank). It is believed that a mysterious, Jewish sect known as the “Essenes” authored the documents (read more about them here).
According to the Daily Mail, the document consists of four complete and two damaged columns. Risa Levitt Kohn, a professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaism at San Diego State University, says that the display offers visitors a first-hand view of a document that has shaped and transformed Western law.
“You can actually see, up close, the oldest parchment copy of laws that have influenced so much of western religious and secular culture,” Kohn says. “Indeed, this text has had such a large and lasting influence on American civil and criminal law.”
An graphic from Discovery Times Square, advertising the exhibit's presence
Written in Hebrew, the text showcases the Ten Commandments, which can be found in the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy and Exodus. Experts believe that this particular scrolls was used as a prayer leaflet.
As Mail Online notes, this isn’t the oldest version of the commandments, though it is the best preserved (the oldest is Nash Papyrus, which is at the University of Cambridge and dates back to 150 BC).
A portion of the Ten Commandments to be displayed at Discovery Times Square
The parchment measures 18 inches in length and is three inches tall. Because it is made from animal skin and is thousands of years old, the document is very fragile to light, temperature and touch.
The museum has this to say about the new exhibit which houses the Ten Commandments:
Take a fascinating journey through the Holy Land in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibit featuring the famed Dead Sea Scrolls, an actual stone from the Western Wall from the Second Temple in Jerusalem and more than 500 never-before-seen artifacts from biblical times. Experience firsthand the traditions, beliefs and iconic objects of ancient Israel that impact world religions today.
Find out more information about the exhibit and the scrolls here.
(H/T: Daily Mail)
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taxpro4u03
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:40amFor the history buffs – circa 2600 bce – ancient egyptian text known as ‘the book of the dead’ contains the ‘basis’ of the dead sea scrolls of 50 bce – 1ad –> circa 1490 bce The hebrew/jewish sect known as ‘essenes’ (Hyksos origins) are believed to be the ‘authors’ of much of what is known as the old testament – they originated in egypt as well (hm…) willful ignorance is no excuse. It’s all there. Always has been. Thank Constantine this, in Jesus’ dern blessed name…. Today, some believe obnoxiously proud decendents (anglo-saxons) premeate the ancient egyptian dynasties on the american, european continents, and the sliver of desert in the ME (Israel).Either way — This isn’t new — same game different times.
Report Post »321481
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:31pmWhere ever the 10 Commandments are you can bet the ACLU isn’t far behind with a law suit!
Report Post »Delores at CH WV
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 9:57pmI am thankful for the people who took the time to record this great record for us. I pray that the negative people on this blog would stop the chatter about putting down religion. Just because many of us hold these beliefs doesn’t mean we want to force you to believe. We are to spread the message, not drag you to the altar. So, be free Not to believe in our God! You are given Free Choice by my God. We all must live by our own decisions. Still, this is a wonderous find in Gaza.
Report Post »mtjlt
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 1:09pmI‘m afraid God won’t answer this particular prayer, Delores, as narrow-minded “free thinkers” will always spout their sarcastic skepticism, which is their God-given right. Our mission, should we choose to accept it, is to allow God to love them through us, despite their hurtful verbiage.
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:53pmI cant find where it says “Thou Shall Not Use Salt” as “The Law” claims in NYC!
Report Post »Shasta77
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:45pmIt’s sad that so many people say they believe in the 10 Commandments and that we should follow them but then ignore the 4th Commandment … funny, it’s the only one God said to remember, I guess He knew we would forget it.
Report Post »iblvingd
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:48pmThe Ten Commandments……………………..a cure for the state of people in the world today!
Report Post »timb58
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 6:01pmOnly 2 commandments Love God and love thy neighbor.
Report Post »Bill Burns
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 3:31pm1) No Obama
2) No Obamacare
3) Smaller Government
4) Less Spending
5) No Dodd-Frank
6) Balanced Budget
Did I say “smaller government?”
Report Post »campt1
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:31pmThe Ten Commandments are NOT multiple choice!
Report Post »uptickusa
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:29pmwhat it there were no RELIGIONS
1/ NO WARS
Report Post »2/NO MY GOD BETTER THAN YOUR GOD
3/NO MORE DEPRESSION OVER SINS WHICH RELIGIONS CREATED
4/NO MORE SCARING THE BE JESUS OUT OF KIDS SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO HELL-[WITHOUT RELIGIONS THERE WOULD BE NO HELL.
-5/ NO MORE TAX FREE SCAMS IN THE BILLIONS- UNDER THE GUISE OF RELIGIONS[THE VATICAN AND CHURCH IN NY RICHEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLD
NOTE-THERE IS A CREATOR WHICH WE ARE ALL PART OF CALLED ENERGY THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE ARE OF A SOLID EXISTENCE-HE IS SPIRITUAL
jedi.kep
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:34pm…AND the suicide rate jumps through the roof because you have left off what many, including college text books, consider to be a vital aspect of health which is spiritual health. And there’s no more Christmas either, or Easter bunny, or Golden Rule. No thanks. I’ll keep my Hope, Faith, and Love through Jesus Christ, my holidays, my Golden Rule, and my high moral standard.
Report Post »ronin_6
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 5:01pmWhat nonsense. Atheists are not devoid of human frailty or fault. If we are not arguing about who’s God is better we arguing about whose football team is. If we are not going to war over faith, we are going to war over resources, territory, women or just plain hate. Children can be scared using completely secular booger men just as easily as they can by using religious themes. No tax free scams? How about GE, the biggest tax cheat around. Every atheist I have met, and there have been many, are depressing, egotistical, little people, devoid of joy.
Report Post »Its okay if you don’t believe in Him. He believes in you.
Luke21
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 8:04pm@Uptick
1/ NO WARS – What “religion” were the 1st & 2nd World Wars started over? The Korean War? Vietnam? Iraq war (remember WMD & oil)? Ignorance makes statements that religion leads to wars – the 20th century was the bloodiest century in recorded history, & the most Godless following on the footsteps of Marx & Darwin.
2/NO MY GOD BETTER THAN YOUR GOD – Therefore know this day, and consider it in your heart, that the LORD Himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. (Deuteronomy 4:39)
3/NO MORE DEPRESSION OVER SINS WHICH RELIGIONS CREATED
4/NO MORE SCARING THE BE JESUS OUT OF KIDS SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO HELL-[WITHOUT RELIGIONS THERE WOULD BE NO HELL.
Without Christ there would be NO redemption and all would be lost, eternally separated from his Creator – w/ no hope. 1 Cor 15
-5/ NO MORE TAX FREE SCAMS IN THE BILLIONS- UNDER THE GUISE OF RELIGIONS[THE VATICAN AND CHURCH IN NY RICHEST CORPORATIONS IN THE WORLD Really? What religion created “social security” (humanism), what about TARP? The heart of man is deceitful & desparateley wicked above all things. Jer17
NOTE-THERE IS A CREATOR WHICH WE ARE ALL PART OF CALLED ENERGY THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT WE ARE OF A SOLID EXISTENCE-HE IS SPIRITUAL
Creativity requires thought, a mind. Energy has no mind, anymore than matter does. Energy left to its own devices destroys, it does not create – it requires intelligence to channel energy & matter into order. In the begin
Report Post »elihu
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 5:53amUpchuck (sorry, Uptick), YOU may be energy; I am a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ!
Report Post »nikodemus2001
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:02pm@holyghostbuster: “They should have filed it in the fiction section”
So…you think it would be ok for me to break into your house, take away your wife, steal everything you own, burn your house because I can’t have it, shoot you in the head (just because).and be able to get away with by telling the cops You gave me your stuff and your wife and set fire to your house and committed suicide? Because if:
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant (burning yourhouse because if I can’t have it you wont either)
You shall not murder. (shoot you in the head)
You shall not commit adultery. (Taking your wife)
You shall not steal (taking your stuff).
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor (lying to the cops about you)
are fiction, then the laws on the books BASED on those commadments are fiction……
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:39pmWOW, How does a piece of paper survive for 2000 years? It’s amazing. Like that book from the 1600s that Glenn had on the show the other day.
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:41pmoh it said it was animal skin. Still pretty amazing.
Report Post »Jinglebob
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:54pmIt wasn’t written on paper. try parchment, tanned, streached hide most likely sheep skins.
Report Post »SevenTrumpets42
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:00pm“Great peace have those who love Your law and nothing causes them to stumble.”
Report Post »Ps 119:165
louise
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:08amLove the One who is the Giver of the Law. The Law was given so we would have knowledge of sin.
It follows that with knowledge of sin, we realize the need of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ. This knowledge of sin brings about repentance and salvation. Salvation brings the Holy Spirit. When we walk by the Spirit we are no longer under the Law.
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:56amToo many people have interpreted the 10 Commandments for the 10 Suggestions, relying on God’s ‘mercy and grace’ or simply writing Him off as fictional, as it fits within their lifestyle or core beliefs. Many believe it is only ‘wrong’ if you get caught, including MOST politicians. The question becomes how did your “beliefs”, become “YOUR beliefs”? Parents, friends, kids, business acquaintances, education, the main stream media (huge factor), events of life, among a great deal of other things, all influence a person’s core beliefs when they are growing up and establishing their character traits for life. Why do you think that one of the INITIAL battles fought in the progressive agenda was eliminating God from schools and anything else possible? They wanted to mold and shape the youth of the future. Not unlike the global warming campaign currently being waged from their elementary to college years. History will prove the Bible was a foundation book of our early schools in the United States. If the Founding Fathers wanted separation of Church and State, would they not have immediately addressed it back then? Why would they have had prayers inside Congress? The initial separation clause had nothing to do with not teaching about religion, it had to do with establishing a State Theocracy. Look at when God was eliminated from our teaching institutions and when the U.S.’s morality started a slow slip into the abyss.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 8:36pmYo Lotus:
That new addition … “what good does it do for a man to gain the whole world ( or the new addition, or car or pretty girl) and lose your soul”.
God’s commandments are in part self protective… but sinse you don’t like God you cannot see that!
Report Post »Lotus4115
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 8:30am4truth2all
If there is nothing to like what’s the point. God is not real and Jesus is just a myth. These are facts of history even if BeckTards don’t see it.
How many BeckTards does it take to screw in a light bulb, none, they’re still in the dark.
Report Post »Lotus4115
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:35amOnly five are valid.
You shall have no other gods before me. (Not needed)
You shall not make for yourself any carved image. (Not Needed)
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. (Not needed)
Remember the Sabbath day, Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. (Not needed)
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant (Not needed)
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Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Report Post »65Plus
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:51am“Thou shalt not covet they neighbors…” NOT NEEDED??? This is called “Class Warfare.” Coveting another’s property is at the heart of the Progressive Marxist playbook and is anti-God. Stated positively, man has a RIGHT TO PROPERTY. What’s yours is yours, not someone else’s. God says so. Only Satan says to the contrary. People worshiping stone and brick of a far away city is the constructive “worshiping of a carved image.” No, do not think ANY of the Commandments are…”not needed.” Especially now.
Report Post »Lotus4115
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:59am65Plus
Report Post »Coveting, Meaning of: yearn to have. This does not mean take. You are confusing the meaning. I yearn to have better things for myself and my family so I work harder towards that goal. I see the addition my neighbor puts on his home, it sure would be nice to renovate our place. To covet is more in line with capitalism then communism.
gofigureinternational
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:13pmExactly–65Plus. Too many of the entitlement minded OWS crowd think you have the “Right to Life, Liberty and Happiness”, misstated for “Life, Liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness”! No one was guaranteed any of the countless programs that the U.S. Government has created to develop a dependent entitlement minded society to insure they voted for the very people that created this class with a complicit media! I am curious of the few people in the OWS crowds that have actually worked for a living, how many were employed by rich people? And I do not fall in that category, but I have never had a job given to me by someone on welfare. Some of these same people that are demonstrating would not take an entry level position at McDonalds for instance, saying it is “below” them being a burger flipper vs. considering it an entry level position to build upon. They believe they are owed everything in life and have no concept of Freedom or what a tyrannical state would deliver to them. They are simply useful pawns in the chess game the powerful elite are playing, both Democrats and Republicans. Term limits would help a great deal, but it is like asking the fox to self-police the hen house, good in theory, but bad in practice…at least if you are one of the residents. “Coveting” is a huge one. Doesn‘t Washington ’covet’ the taxpayers money?
Report Post »PAPPY72
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:29pmLotus4115 – Why are those 5 no longer valid? Last I checked, they are still very much valid to all Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Specifically, in regards to coveting your neighbor’s goods, what that meant is to have the desire to take your nieghbor’s goods for yourself…a better way to sum it up is – don’t steel, and don’t allow yourself the desire to steel. It has nothing to do with the desire to legitimately obtain goods like what your neighbor has, for yourself. What God is trying to do is to help us avoid jelousy and hatred towards others for what they have. This concept links to the core idea to “love your neighbor as yourself”.
Report Post »LeeroyJenkins
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 12:46pm@pappy72 Muslims? Really? OK….look that one up in the koran
Report Post »Lotus4115
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:41pmPAPPY72
Report Post »You are wrong about the meaning of covet. If you were right it still would not be needed due to the Not Steal commandment. BeckTards=religious nut jobs.
ARSILHOUETTE
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:33amThese ten commandments are the basis for 90% of our laws in this country. It used to be 100% but there are some judges who like to reinterpet them to be more PC. Throughout history they have been “reinterpeted” by man to justify their immoral behaviour.
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:16pmYou DO realize that there are no laws in our country concerning the first 4 commandments, . . . .and of the others, those that ARE based in legal reasoning were known to be a breaking of a law before the hebrews created their laws.
As for coveting possessions, . . . please point out our legal precedence for legal actions taken against someone who REALLY likes [and wishes he had] his neighbor’s property.
On that specific commandment, you DO realize that “his wife” is lumped with the MAN’s posessions, right???
Report Post »mtjlt
Posted on February 15, 2012 at 2:05pmThe first four commandments aren’t reflected in our law? Deavonreye has apparently missed the following First Amendment clause: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Freedom from religion is a preference, not the law.
What’s wrong with coveting? Perhaps the fact that it motivates all property-related crimes and produces dissatisfaction with ones own possessions, makes coveting wrong. As far as #10 including ones wife with his property, that’s petty nonsense. Would you not defend your wife along with your property? If you didn’t invest yourself so much in hating, Deavonreye, you might see the value even in what you disagree with.
Report Post »ThankYouFounders
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:25amNYC huh? I imagine some Leftist hippie will probably defecate on it and say he was creating art. Then he’ll prance off to the welfare office to pick up his subsidy, or “benefit”.
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:17amYes they are still LAW today many have been told they were nailed to the cross NOPE.Maybe some will learn the difference in LAW,STATUTES,ORDIANCES.The only thing that was nailed to the cross with Christ was the Blood Ordiances he was our one for all time the last Blood Sacrafice for all.In GODS WORD HE SAID I DO NOT WANT YOUR SACRAFICES THEY ARE LIKE SMOKE IN MY NOSE ALL I WANT IS YOUR LOVE. JESUS did not die to destroy the LAW but to FULFILL IT.He defeated DEATH who is Satan who has many names LUCIFER,DEATH,SON OF PERDITION,SERPENT,THE ANTI-CHRIST now ANTI means INSTEAD OF have to take many words back to the original meanings.It is not the same meaning as ANTIFREEZE.
Report Post »stickandtwig.com
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:06am“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We’ve staked the future of all our political institutions upon our capacity…to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
–James Madison, [1778 to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia]
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:26amThe constitution was written for a righteous people, we need to get back there if we are to survive. We need the biggest revival of faith in the history of our country-and mankind. We need to stand up and be counted.
Report Post »jmmulkey
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 9:38am@ Holy Ghostbuster and @ The Third Archon —
Just wondering, do you believe that is is okay to murder someone? Is it okay to steal from someone? Is it okay to tell a lie or to lust after your neighbor’s wife, home, car etc… (defined as: a passionate or overmastering desire or craving) Most of the laws we have today are based on the 10 commandments and other teachings of the Bible. Including that marriage should be between a man and a woman and that, YES, the sex of the person you love matters. In one way or another, most of the world uses these same laws.
@Holy Ghostbuster: Why do you think this should be filed in the “fiction section” when the artifacts and what is written on them are obviously real? Just because you don’t believe in God, doesn‘t mean he isn’t real.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 3:20am“do you believe that is is okay to murder someone?”
Report Post »Well no, generally murder is wrong. However, you don’t give an context–morality is not substantive, it is contextual, and I’m sure you would agree that there are times when “murder” (by which I define the killing of someone without their consent and without government sanction) is/could morally good.
“Is it okay to steal from someone?”
Depends upon who it is and what you are stealing. Often times no. But I’d steal all the nuclear weapons in the world and privatize world peace if I could :D
“Is it okay to tell a lie”
To save Jews in your attic–ABSOLUTELY.
“or to lust after your neighbor’s wife”
If they’re both into that sort of thing…
“home, car etc…”
Human want is not immoral.
“…have today are based on the 10 commandments and other teachings of the Bible.”
Just because something is descriptively the case (i.e. our law has religious roots historically) doesn’t mean that it SHOULD be that way, then or now.
“Including that marriage should be between a man and a woman and that, YES, the sex of the person you love matters.”
And here is a PERFECT example of WHY tradition doesn’t equal normatively good.
“In one way or another, most of the world uses these same laws.”
Absolutely false–if that were true, you wouldn’t object to Sharia law, and there are roughly three-quarters as many Muslims in the world as Christians, and combined, there’s still roughly 46% of Earth’s populati
The Third Archon
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 3:50am“@Holy Ghostbuster: Why do you think this should be filed in the “fiction section” when the artifacts and what is written on them are obviously real? Just because you don’t believe in God, doesn‘t mean he isn’t real.”
Also, what the hell kind of argument is this? You know that works of “fiction” literature also have corporeal reality too right? Like, you are aware that people can write done things that didn’t actually happen, correct? Just because they are really old doesn’t mean everyone told the truth (or even knew what the hell that was).
And just because YOU believe there IS a god, doesn’t mean there IS by the same token–that argument doesn’t gain you ground.
Report Post »patriot4ever
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 8:18amGod Bless ‘em for doing this in New York City, now it’s time to go back to ground zero and pray.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 10:12amIt won‘t be long before someone in NYC gets the idea of stealing these and burning them or ’kidnapping’ them for ransom.
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:32amWolf—And now take 2000 years of wars and differing opinions, coups, invasions, etc. How much history and “Proof” that everyone is always so demanding of, has been destroyed. This is how the Dead Sea scrolls came to be in the first place, hiding these from people who were on a mission of religious persecution.
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:29amI found the book of Enoch and the book of Jasher also interesting but almost anything history related gets my attention like my school books from the mid 1700′s before revisionist history began that were going to be trashed i cannot stand to see a book trash canned.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 2:21amThe Founders believed in the 10 Commandments, so that’s good enough for me. I have my very own parchment copies framed in my rec room. The difference between mine and the those being displayed here is that I have all of the commandments framed. All 613 of them. With them you are led to the dawn of perfection because at the end of both sides of the walls that hold the Commandments it leads directly to the mark of God where I go to contemplate His Grace. It’s the Tav, the Cross of Gods mark, through the perfect Word of Christ Jesus.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:59am““You can actually see, up close, the oldest parchment copy of laws that have influenced so much of western religious and secular culture,” Kohn says. “Indeed, this text has had such a large and lasting influence on American civil and criminal law.”
Report Post »That’s for sure–same reason why a bunch of morons think the sex of the person you love matters.
ThankYouFounders
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 11:28amHmmm….so explain to me how a society of homosexuals will reproduce and carry on
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 2:52amWell that’s a false dichtomoy–people need not be only homosexual, they can also be heterosexual just to reproduce. Or the society could be mixed between solely heterosexuals and solely homosexuals. Or the society could be comprised of heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals. Or an entirely homosexual society could use invitro fertilization to reproduce.
My point is that it doesn’t matter, and doesn’t make a moral difference.
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 1:12amWhy was this placed half way down the page? Shouldn‘t THEBLAZE have more reverence for God’s commandments?
Report Post »holy ghostbuster
Posted on December 17, 2011 at 7:28amThey should have filed it in the fiction section.
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