Stephen Pfann sui Rotoli del Mar Morto
Pfann on the Dead Sea Scrolls
sabato 23 agosto 2008
Stephen Pfann is one of the most respected scholars in his field of expertise. And I’m one of his admirers. He’s been interviewed on the Dead Sea Scrolls and (should have) said:
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When asked why the Dead Sea Scrolls were so important to us today, Pfann said, "because they confirm the Bible that we have. There's variants, but basically it's [that] you can barely tell the difference between the two texts, [the one] that we have in Qumran and in our Bibles."
Mmm... the Old Testament and the Qumran texts are so similar? And those scrolls confirm the Bible. And the New Testament? Stephen can’t have said that.
UPDATE: as I suspected, Stephen doesn’t think that a fragment of Mark’s gospel was written at Qumran.
On the edge of the Dead Sea, deep in the heart of the Judean wilderness in a place called Qumran, came some of the most significant artifacts of modern times: the Dead Sea Scrolls.
For two millennia, the scrolls lay hidden in 11 caves throughout the Qumran area. Their discovery marked the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century.
