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God's law is still important! The first 4 commandments are about a relationship with God, and the last 6 about relationships with those around us! The 4th commandment, the Seventh day Sabbath commandment, is the only one that recoginzes God as Creator, and it's the only one that says remember...It is also a sign that He sanctifies us! Ezekiel 20:12 says, "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them." Praise God!
From TheBlaze:
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.”
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).
God's best 2 U, Joy J
God's law is still important! The first 4 commandments are about a relationship with God, and the last 6 about relationships with those around us! The 4th commandment, the Seventh day Sabbath commandment, is the only one that recoginzes God as Creator, and it's the only one that says remember...It is also a sign that He sanctifies us! Ezekiel 20:12 says, "Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them." Praise God!
From TheBlaze:
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
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).
God's best 2 U, Joy J
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