Some Dead Sea Scrolls Confirmed Fake

[JudyO]

Some scrolls discovered after 2002 have been determined to be forgeries.

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/?utm_source=pocket-newtab#close

 

[stpfarms]

Yes almost all scrolls were found in the 40s and 50s and these later fragments are now proved fake. I don't believe it changed anything from all the original findings though.

Sent from my ONEPLUS A6013 using Tapatalk

[retroHelen]

Yes, I went to the Shrine of the Book in the 1980s. It's a fascinating building. It's subterranean and the roof is in the shape of the lid of the vessels that held many of the scrolls when they were ceremonially buried. The building was built so that water can run around above it and it's also built subterranean, so that the scrolls are kept at a stable cool temperature without relying too much on machinery to do this. 

 

You walk down a hewn tunnel to the room housing the scrolls behind glass, it's quite dim and you have to only view the scroll portions lit for a short while to stop light destroying the fragile scrolls. 

 

When we were in Jaffa/Joppa/Yafo near Tel Aviv, we went into the old city and found an antique shop selling many old artifacts, quite legally. he sat us at his counter and brought different things of interest to show us. We sat deliberating over coins from the time of Pilate's governorship or a Widow's mite/lepton. We chose the mite and the Antique/antiquity dealer put the coin in a wallet with a certificate of authenticity which he signed for us.

 

We observed this antiquarian seller a few times later, meeting with business people for conversation and selling from his cases at good hotels or eating establishments - conversing/trading with people wealthier than us.

 

Years later there was much made of some small stone carved boxes found in caves in Jerusalem and one seemed to have the name Joseph carved on it. Then other ring seals with names of Bible characters were said to have been found buried near Jerusalem. Other things appeared with Biblical connections. All were sold to museums around the World. I was somewhat suspicious as so many things with Biblical connections were suddenly appearing. 

 

Then there was a big documentary on TV about a big antique dealer in Israel collaborating with a man who used to be a translator of ancient languages and another Arab, who had some knowledge of geology and physics and archaeology. Together it transpired that for years they had been stealing pieces of pottery or brickwork or material from genuine old sites in Israel - of which there are so many - and having fake inscriptions in ancient languages put on them and then suitably "aged" before being either reburied, to be revealed later, or just revealed to the market with great publicity and sold by the antique dealer acting as middle-man. Famous large museums around the World had been duped for years and bought from this man and displayed the fakes in their museums. They were cleverly done with knowledge of what they needed to do, but clever forensics teams had analyzed their work and translators of ancient languages had found some poor grammar and modern idioms in some writings that caught them out. I wonder if this is more of their doing or later people taking up the reigns of their fakery after they went to prison?

 

I couldn't believe my eyes when the arrested men got out of the Police vans on TV and the antique dealer was the man we saw in Jaffa!! He did have genuine pieces of less interest in his shop, so ours was genuine, but these men had duped international museums for years out of millions of dollars worth of fake treasures including much purporting to 'Prove the Bible'. This subsequently became great ammunition that atheists thought theycould use against us on the Ministry, but thankfully there is much still in Museums earthwide that predates these greedy criminal's lives that is genuine and there's more to proving the Truth of the Bible than just archaeology anyway.

Edited March 18, 2020 by retroHelen

[Rozannnancarrow]

Has any one else seen the news on the dead sea scrolls at the museum being fake.so if they are fake where are the original or are they trying to say  they don't exist 

[Old]

4 minutes ago, Rozannnancarrow said:

Has any one else seen the news on the dead sea scrolls at the museum being fake.so if they are fake where are the original or are they trying to say  they don't exist 

Been covered already

 

[Todd komaniak]

The president of Hobby Lobby was starting to collect them then found out they were fake......https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/all-museum-bibles-dead-sea-scrolls-are-fake-report-finds-180974425/

[carlos]

2 hours ago, Rozannnancarrow said:

Has any one else seen the news on the dead sea scrolls at the museum being fake.so if they are fake where are the original or are they trying to say  they don't exist 

In 1947 a number of manuscripts were found in a cave that contained a lot of useful information. They were called "the Dead Sea Scrolls". The brothers used them to fine tune the NWT and there is no doubt about their authenticity.

 

Now in 2002 a new batch of manuscripts appeared, supposedly coming from the same source although actually no one knew where they came from. That Bible Museum bought some of them. Now it has been determined that they are fakes. Someone simply forged them to make money.