Dead Sea Scrolls Document History of Israel, Refute Palestine, Occupation



Photo: Joel Leyden / Israel News Agency

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

Jerusalem --- February 10, 2012 .... One need not trek thousands of miles to view the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem.
Smack in the middle of Times Square and Broadway in New York City, the Discovery Museum has been displaying this ancient, Hebrew literature since last October.

The ancient, 2,000 year-old Hebrew scrolls were accidentally discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin boy high above the Israel Dead Sea in a number of caves. The Dead Sea Scrolls reveal the history of the Jewish Second Temple period (520 B.C.E.-70 C.E.), particularly from the second century B.C.E. until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. - a time of crucial developments in the crystallization of the monotheistic religions. The Dead Sea Scrolls are made up of roughly 900 documents and biblical texts. They are made of animal skin, papyrus and even forged copper and are considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a vivid testament to the life, times, community and legal heritage of the Jewish people to the land of Israel.

In a world filled with blatant propaganda and lies by the Palestinian Authority (PA), Iran, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, it is refreshing to view upon these well preserved documents that speak of community and values by Jews who lived in biblical Israel.

How can Arabs or the UN declare that Israel, the West Bank or Gaza is occupied land when these documents were written over 600 years before the prophet Muhammad, before there was anything called Islam or Palestine?
These Jewish documents contain numerous copies of books from the Hebrew Bible, written in Hebrew, not Arabic!

How can Arabs or the UN declare that Israel, the West Bank or Gaza is occupied land when these documents were written over 600 years before the prophet Muhammad, before there was anything called Islam or Palestine?
These Jewish documents contain numerous copies of books from the Hebrew Bible, written in Hebrew, not Arabic!

The The Israel Antiquities Authority has done a fine job in preserving and providing global exhibits of these documents, artifacts which directly mention the Ten Commandments.

At the Discovery Times Square exhibit “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times," a recently arrived set of 10 new documents have been installed to replace the previous set on display. The new collection includes a section from the book of Isaiah and two scrolls never before seen by the public, “Greek Minor Prophets” and “Job Targum.”

The New York Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is being sponsored by American Express, WNBC, The Westin, Sheraton Hotels, Ahava and El Al Israeli Airlines.

The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in New York was created to appeal to the general public with thousands of Christian and Jewish visitors visiting the museum on a daily basis. The exhibition contains 500 different artifacts dating back as far as 3,000 years, including a giant stone from the Western Wall and several ossuaries (stone containers used to store human bones). Among the ossuaries are those speculated to have come from the family tomb of Jesus and Mary.

Security surrounding these artifacts could not be more stringent. Each person who walks into the Discovery Museum in New York is profiled and then escorted through the exhibit.

 

As one walks onto the sand drenched floors of this New York City museum Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit and enters a colorful multimedia display they are greeted with the words: "welcome to Israel."

And that is the way it should be. The Dead Sea Scrolls are Israel. But you would never know it by Israel's lack of effective PR.

The New York PR firm MWW is responsible for publicizing the Israeli exhibit. They state that this exhibit is not in New York to make a political statement but rather to be enjoyed and embraced as history at its best.


Coins used in Israeli communities over 2,000 years ago.
Photo: Israel News Agency

But with Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hezbollah and the PA now teaming up with millions of dollars in Arab oil money for public relations to delegitimize the State of Israel there has never been a more important time than to hold the Dead Sea Scrolls up high whenever someone mentions the words occupation or Palestine.

Yes, there were Arabs living in what was once called the Palestinian Mandate by the British, Arabs who chose war rather than creating their own state next to a Jewish one in 1948. Arabs who came from Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Arabs who never had and only created a government called Palestine in 1967. The newly formed Palestinian Fatah movement led by Egyptian born Yasser Arafat called for war to eliminate Israel. Prior to 1967, there were no Palestinian coins, stamps, flags, literature - nothing to relate to either a government or society of "Palestinians" in the region of Israel, Judea and Samaria.

So the next time you hear or read the word "occupation" in Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, please respond with three words: Dead Sea Scrolls.

They were around a few years before Yasser Arafat.

 

 

 


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