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🌟📜 Dead Sea Scrolls decoded! Scholar cracks “Cryptic B”—an ancient substitution cipher hiding a priestly calendar in Hebrew, used for secret knowledge 2,000 years ago. Mysteries unveiled! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/this-enigmatic-ancient-script-hidden-within-the-dead-sea-scrolls-was-thought-to-be-indecipherable-until-now/

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#DeadSeaScrolls #AncientCipher #ArchaeologyWin #HistoryMystery

Anyone offering opinions on whether AI reconstruction of text from a bunch of statistical weights is a violation of copyright, should first write an essay explaining their thinking in the context of the Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance affair

This has all been argued before in different contexts with different facts, but it has all been argued before:

“Will Marty Abegg Ever Find a Job?” | The BAS Library

Each word in the fragments had its own three-by-five card, noting where it appeared and what the adjacent words were. But the concordance was available only to the eight scholars on the publication team, not to outsiders.

In 1988 copies of this concordance were privately printed from the three-by-five cards for the use of the then-dispersed publication team, and a copy eventually found its way to Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio.

With the aid of this concordance, a graduate student named Marty Abegg was able to reconstruct the transcripts. And he eventually allowed his reconstructions to be published by the Biblical Archaeology Society.

https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/will-marty-abegg-ever-find-a-job/

#ai #copyright #deadSeaScrolls #llm

AI reveals Dead Sea Scrolls may be older than previously thought

A recent study using artificial intelligence is reshaping our understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggesting many of the scrolls are older than previously believed...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/06/ai-reveals-dead-sea-scrolls-may-be-older-than-previously-thought/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ArchaeologyLovers #aramaic #AI #deadseascrolls

AI is changing how we understand the Dead Sea Scrolls! New age estimates are emerging thanks to advanced tech. #AI #Archaeology #DeadSeaScrolls
Read more: https://ndpost.org/uncategorized/ai-analysis-reshapes-age-estimates-of-dead-sea-scrolls/

#DeadSeaScrolls possibly even older than #scholars thought

https://www.popsci.com/technology/dead-sea-scrolls-age/

Nice to see, The Other Bible, by Willis Barnstone online at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/otherbible0000unse/mode/2up

#Gnostic #gnosis #NagHammadiLibrary #DeadSeaScrolls #Mandaean #Manichaean #Apocrypha #Gospels #ExtraCanonical #Scriptures #OdesOfSolomon

🔴 The Earliest Photo of the Man Who Discovered the First Dead Sea Scrolls?

“This 1953 photo shoot covers both the excavations at Qumran and the early work of sorting the fragments. I was surprised to see a photo of the “two shepherds” who are said to have been the first to find scrolls standing outside the entrance to Cave 1Q.”

https://brentnongbri.com/2024/07/19/the-earliest-photo-of-the-man-who-discovered-the-first-dead-sea-scrolls/

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Qumran #DeadSeaScrolls #MiddleEast #Levant #Asia @histodon @histodons

What interests me is the question how, if the DSS/OG reading is original, the shorter MT reading could have appeared. The proposed reconstruction of 4QSam-a's text reads:
והנער
[עמם ויביאוהו לפני יהוה וישחט אביהו את ]הזבח [כ]אשר
[יעשה מימים ימימה ליהוה ............... וי]שחט

with a long gap.

But if that's original, how can one explain the shorter reading?

8/? #DeadSeaScrolls #HebrewBible #TextualCriticism

Most such explanations can go either way, which is why #TextualCriticism is difficult and often inconclusive.

In this case, one of the #DeadSeaScrolls supports OG over MT (which doesn't solve the issue, since variations occur among DSS).

4QSam-a:
בי]ת יהוה שילה והנער
]הזבח [כ]אשר
וי]שחט

So a full line comes between the second-to-last word of 1 Sam. 1:24 and the start of v.25, w/ two words echoing OG.

7/? #TextualCriticism #HebrewBible

Today is Abib 15, a High Sabbath. 2000 years ago the Messiah gave up his life to pay for our transgressions. Abib 15-21 is also the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

#Matzah #Messiah #Sabbath #Shabbat #Zadok #DeadSeaScrolls #UnleavenedBread #haDerech #Natsarim #Messianic #Christianity

#PublicDomain photo: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=35955

Happy Passover! (חג הפסח (Hag haPesah)) to all my brethren who follow the Priestly calendar.

Shalom shalom to you and yours!

#Passover #Pesach #Zadok #Zadokite #DeadSeaScrolls #haDerech #TheWay #Natsarim #Messianic #Christianity

#PublicDomain image: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=500503

The real #WheelOfTime was used by John the Baptist and his followers (they are NOT the Essenes); aka #DeadSeaScrolls / #Zadok / #Zadokite (Priestly) calendar

See https://dsscalendar.org/c/

#HappyNewYear #Spring #NewYear #HaDerech #Natsarim #TheWay #Torah #Messianic #Christianity

Today is season "boundary" day. It marks the end & beginning of seasons. This keeps everyone synchronous with nature & the Feasts of YHWH.

#Torah #Zadokite #DeadSeaScrolls #HaDerech #Messianic #Christianity #Judaism #Zadok #Scripture

To my fellow followers of #HaDerech (#TheWay) and the #Zadokite (#DeadSeaScrolls) calendar.

#Passover #Pesach will be on 2024-04-02 18:00 to 2024-04-03 06:00.

In Scriptural Calendar:
* Evening of 14th = 04-02 18:00; to
* Evening of 15th = 04-03 17:59.

Meanwhile, the Feast of #UnleavenedBread #ChagHaMatzot will be from 2024-04-03 to 2024-04-09.

In Scriptural Calendar:
* From the beginning of the day of 15th (sunrise) = 04-03 06:00 to
* the last evening hour of the 21st = 04-10 05:59, right before a new day begins.
* The 1st and 7th days are #HighShabbat days. No work like any other #Shabbat days.

Remember, a day (24-hour period) begins at sunrise or 06:00 (for easy reckoning), and ends until the next sunrise or 05:59 (for easy reckoning).

We observe the Feasts of YHWH because he commanded these, not because of rituals men told us to. It is fine if you stick to pure Torah instructions or if you want to add traditions, it is between you and The Most High. Just make sure you are not doing it as a ritual, otherwise, it is legalism. Do it because you want to obey The Most High. It was YHWH who commanded these, not men, and definitely not the Pharisees.

Have an amazing time with YHWH, The Most High!

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"What can new technology reveal about the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls? Join scientists as they investigate suspicious, newly surfaced fragments to see if they're forfeited, and use imaging techniques to digitally unravel the charred remains of a scroll." https://youtu.be/INV9eLQa7Jc #Youtube #Video #Documentary #DeadSeaScrolls #Ancient #Hebrew #Bible #Judaism #Christianity #Religion #Tech #Technology #Science #STEM #Archaeology @science @religion @christianity @archaeodons

started a #wikipedia article on American translator, writer, speaker, president of Junior Hadassah in the 1930s, Hebrew University professor in the 1950s and 1960s, Shulamith Schwartz Nardi (1909-2002): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamith_Nardi @wikiwomeninred @barnardcollege @hebrewu #Israel #DeadSeaScrolls #Palestine #Hadassah #Zionism #HebrewLiterature

The reason why armchair (and professional) lawyers who want to argue the Open AI vs: New York Times copyright lawsuit, should look towards the Dead Sea Scrolls…

This is written-up in a bunch[1] of places, but basically: the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered circa 1946, then excavated, and then hoarded by academics who wanted to only release them piecemeal and slowly, after consideration.

Alas for this plan: to assist researchers who wanted to run statistical analyses of which words were where on what pages, they released a concordance — an index of all of the texts…

[…] organized like a dictionary, listing every use of every word that appears in a text, identifying the places where the word is found and also giving the context in which the word is used. 

Source: NYT

But what they never bet upon was that someone would take the concordance, feed it into a computer, and use the computer to reconstruct (or: “reverse-engineer”) a copy of the original text (allowing that there may be errors in the construction of the concordance or in the process of reconstruction) – the reconstruction being subsequently published and thereby effectively forcing the scroll-keepers into actual publication of the originals

Key Questions

Ignoring that the original texts were so old as to not be in copyright…

1. Was the concordance a derivative work of the original texts?
2. Was analysis of the concordance in order to reconstruct the original, in keeping with the intention of providing the concordance for analysis? Would this matter?
3. Would building an LLM model of all the scrape-able texts on the internet — including, for instance, the Internet Archive copy of the 1991 NYT article re: this matter — be a derivative work of the NYT article, or of the entire Internet? Should we distinguish?
4. If someone — for instance a lawyer representing the NYT — prompts a LLM with text that will provoke it to roughly reconstruct (allowing that there may be errors in the construction of the model or in the process of reconstruction) a NYT article, is the result a breach of copyright? Is it a mechanically derived work (the reconstruction) of (perhaps) another derived work (the model)?

These are fun things to think about. I’m not going to suggest answers, because I am not trying to win an argument one way or another, but I do believe that the future of knowledge-accessability is at stake, here.

[1] Sources

• https://brill.com/display/package/9789004310391?language=en
• https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/05/world/computer-breaks-monopoly-on-study-of-dead-sea-scrolls.html (archived at internet archive)
• https://www.logos.com/grow/bsm-the-dramatic-discovery-and-forced-release-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/

#copyright #deadSeaScrolls #newYorkTimes #openAi

https://alecmuffett.com/article/108769

-- Scholar FLIPS Dead Sea Scroll JESUS CLAIM on its Head (feat Dr James Tabor) --
(from Paulogia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5fwT8FtmTE

#DeadSeaScrolls #Qumran #Judaism #Christianity #Jesus #apologetics #history #prophecy

-- Apologist crushed by expert on The Dead Sea Scrolls | Eric Metaxas vs. James D. Tabor --
(from Rationality Rules)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bbdA93wJzY

#Judaism #Christianity #DeadSeaScrolls #scripture #Bible #history

-- Dead Sea Scrolls: What Apologists Hope You'll Never Find Out (feat. Dr James Tabor) --
(at Paulogia)
#Christianity #gospels #apologetics #Bible #scripture #scholarship #DeadSeaScrolls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9a8TPFYdQ

#DeadSeaScrolls: What #Apologists Hope You'll Never Find Out (feat. Dr James Tabor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK9a8TPFYdQ

#Christian apologist #JoshMcDowell irresponsibly overstates what the Dead Sea Scrolls can tell us about #OldTestament reliability. Dr John Bergsma insists that #JohntheBaptist and several of #Jesus' disciples were part of the #DeadSeaScroll group. Meanwhile, Dr Craig Evans insists that any notion of Jesus parallels are rejected by #scholars and outside the mainstream.
#Bible #NT #myth

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#215 Bob Rickard and Paul Sieveking (eds) - Fortean Times: The Journal of Strange Phenomena, No 93. John Brown Publishing Ltd, London, December 1996. #ForteanTimes #BobRickard #PaulSieveking #Cryptozoology #Bigfoot #DeadSeaScrolls #BookOfTheDay