The ultimate mystery of Qumran

By Mark David  
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This is a translation from google translate of the original post in Italian:

Le giare segrete

http://rumoridelluniverso.blogspot.dk/2014/03/le-giare-segrete.html

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In ancient documents discovered more than fifty years ago, the descriptions of the daily life of the religious sect of the Essenes has George J. Brooke, prof. Biblical Exegesis at the University of Manchester convinced that the authors were "bigoted fanatics".

He states: "In the manuscripts describing Judaism with an amplitude greater than the same sectarian community that had been handed down might have supposed: in them we find the wisdom texts, prayers and poems, biblical interpretations, Astronomy calculations and the most beloved stories of the golden age of Jewish literature. 

The similar flourishing of Jewish literature in Egypt, in the last period of the Second Temple, is an obvious but rarely acknowledged, an area in which to search for elements that will allow us a better understanding of the rolls themselves. "And here comes Robert Feather who is the one who wrote "The ultimate mystery of Qumran."

And here lies the paradox, I who was kidnapped from the Bible, the Old Testament that I stubbornly wanted to understand more and more. Slowly, a craving for wanting to know more of what I once believed and want to still believe tomorrow.

My hidden ego also becomes an acid, something that eats away at the gears of the mind, transforming the certainty of reading accumulated over the years, reborn again the lure of the truth.

And ‘evil’, since I have no other name to call it, lives in the signs of the past that have remained indelible in ancient writings, protagonists of those actions in isolated echoes that bounce faint and indefinite, but if taken and embedded in a unique mixture, can still be found in contemporary civilization.

And it is this culture that I am not proud of, this condition thus established that I no longer want to be part of, made with the beliefs of a "do not ask if you believe.” Said and done, every time the aforementioned agglomeration altered by time and tampering is ready to return back to the origin.

And now the source is there, hidden in the mysterious eight hundred papyri discovered in the caves of the mountains of the desert of Judah, to be exact at Khirbat, where they nested and never experienced the remnants of the lost, ancient peoples and then wonder why to return to live again after two thousand years in our time who has no time, he does not want to have time, you will never find a time ...

I scoured bookstores and everywhere I asked a thousand books that would translate texts, and this was a period of my life, hard work, without however being able to finish anything that would fill my thirst, remaining dry mouth until defeat was going to give up, because the power and arrogance of certain authorities has no limits.

It is still a mystery, as there is an agreement between the religious communities and the atheist community and

scientific, on their real content.

That is the content for a certain period has been disclosed, but unfortunately it went against some religious traditions, and the controversy ended in a quarrel, ending in the tragic (more about that later on this) what we know with certainty is that those papyri were written long ago, before Christ, and perhaps above all else.

What could be so dangerous in those writings to want to conceal the content?

They are very tight and I should not mix the sacred with the profane, but what's in today's sacred and what is profane? Thousands of years old and ancient beliefs, when rave was knowledge and wisdom, when they were mere truth of those few people who knew how to maneuver and who enthralled the crowds and we now call charismatic speakers, and that's all there was. Look and feel still happens, madding crowds hailing the speaker to turn, really you are so stubborn?

That I travel very frequently on the wings of the fantastic, I can say with certainty; that the man who writes and writes when he does of his own free will, either crazy or computer that is. So those writings were written in ancient times by men in their full knowledge and no one can inculcate in any way must do so without incontrovertible evidence that the contrary was not that the operation of a divine, something to which I do not believe this and you will have it figured out.

So why do we always have to create a mystery when there is none? However, they were and are sacred to those who believed and believe, especially for the people who transcribed them. Since in those rolls is the oldest of transcription much more, most of the writings of cut, deleted a thousand remakes of a Bible came down to us unadulterated, undistorted by human hands and not divine.

But those rolls, originals, they themselves are new copies of even older texts, written by men who knows or in good faith for their own advantage, which they copied it again and for some reason hid them.

But I would like to add a few more consideration on this point, to convince you that no one is master of our own mind, not even the divine.

So who writes with a gun pointed at, it is always a man, and even if someone is dictating or recopying is always a man who writes.

In the event that certuno could think to say that an angel (angel then ... be that no one comes to mind to inform, that was precisely the ancient Egyptians invent this figure, among other "messengers" see sarcophagus of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, but now we have it indoctrinated in another way) may have guided the hand, or even if it was just the supernatural or whoever, it takes its responsibilities, but it is clear, then I'm not that I fall into the fantastic.

Of course you can also go and imagine the evil that is intervened and helped to draft the hands of a bad man, or that he was also possessed by a devil (she was born from the ancient figure of the Egyptian Amon who turned from good comforter for those who believed and from avenging monster with horns and hooves for much of the infidels).

One thing is certain, I am still of the idea, that the said and repeated often by my father, who is now in the Elysian Fields, right where I like to imagine, and I hope it is, 

"Dear daughter, you have to be afraid of the living and not the dead.”

On the understanding that the dead are dead their souls rest in peace, and that the spirits of the holy angels, devils, devils and so on and so forth, do not meddle in our affairs, even in the afterlife if there was. It would be really funny to imagine that they fight to make sure that their pets (ie us), to be drawn up writing in this case on their behalf. But then what are we puppets? Taking care of us, we who are children of the earth, we only children can know to the core, without the need for aid invisible, but instead believes that he needs to find dell'avulso his nature to be complete.

I am aware that I write and that no one else at the moment is writing this for me, or someone already praising Satan, I know, but think about it if it were not for the sacred, that Satan would happen? And I would have loved to say; I'm writing and a spirit hovers around me, giving me the impulse to say the right things and the real things, that it is he who helps me to click the buttons on my laptop.

Yet I am convinced that God knows how many times in the past, the man is accused or was accused to him that he was led to write the god of turn or if not just the divine had bothered to write.

Convenience? Of course it is, the man when it comes to acquiring power and gain, no scruples, if he is in the grip of drugs or in abstinence they can do and say everything, but we know this is bad today know well, and that yesterday was the superstition that still carries with it the consequences.

After this lesson and analysis of low intelligence, and I apologize to the reader, but this is my thought, I am going to finish the premise that it is the usual ramble with some strands of correlation with blessed scrolls of Qumran "or called" the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

So the scrolls haunts me for many years and I can not get it out of mind then that although many scholars do not seem to have anything to do with the other, he is the "roll of copper" 3Q 15, and for me has to do is what will lead to the truth, but now it is the most beautiful mystery that may exist and it is not only for me but also for all those who have tried to translate it.

He is the only written roll of copper while all others are written in sheepskin.

In addition, the roll of copper has been written in a very old language, even, writes George J. Brooke: A Paleo-Hebrew derived from Proto-Canaanite, which in turn evolved from dell'ungarico, of Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Phoenician "and continues:" The Copper Scroll is certainly unusual in many respects, however, the language in which it was engraved with the text, it is certainly one of the features that most baffles scholars. "

And 'my intention to write in the next few days the idea that I have of this wonderful testimony which again is the daughter of a fate that will never end.

part 2

Is it so that its fate that haunts me, I suggest itself as if he would be revealed and those who have read my previous post (only one) maybe you can understand. What appears to me and a few others without shadows, far from the majority which remains a mystery, or just a bunch of fantasies.

Although he has come a long way over three thousand years and will continue for who knows how long, taking the trouble to make fun of the person who is able to interpret (and here I take my responsibility for what I just wrote).

  Robert Feather and even before John Allegro strongholds of science and knowledge of our century have sought without taking part, with a clear conscience, to do their homework, study before judging. And the matter seemed to be on the verge of finally no longer a puzzle, but then, at some point everything stopped lost in oblivion, everything has remained as it was as if nothing had touched us, and those findings go unnoticed.

Of course Jhon Allegro is dead freaking out, desecrating religions more powerful (if you allow me I would have done the same) after he was accused by a braggart and abandoned by the scientific eminences, which flew like birds of prey around those papyri, which he just wanted to put knowledge.

Today drop or invalidate the strongholds of certain dogmas is still impossible, the interest is strong, too strong and if the victim is blameless than fifty years ago it was John Allegro, now who will? Someone will take this trouble to make things clear or will be afraid of being abandoned and persecuted by those that revolve around some temples impassable by the good and the bad weather? These then, are dark times and do not care to anyone, we have other things to think about, let alone get to rummage in certain ravines now congealed. Today we pray that we have instilled something without being able to choose, it is business as usual. So then I am going to write conscious to do with the ink (so to speak) sympathetic.

Writes Robert Feather: (and here I refer you to his book The Last Mystery of Qmran)

"The first translation of the Copper Scroll was made by John Allegro, in Manchester. While he was the first to be published was that of Father JTMilik in 1959.

John Allegro, who had been part of the first group of translators, was strongly disagree with the content of the translation published in 1959, but his superiors would not allow him to go public with his story. In fact, they wanted to keep a tight control on everything that was in their possession and be assured that was not published anything without their formal approval. "

As before mentioned the history and folk beliefs are difficult to reform, and whether the Essenes have always been accused for a people who did not believe in worldly goods, was natural not to publish the book by John Allegro. But John Allegro had done a really impressive job putting us right from the first approach with the Papyrus of copper throughout its authoritative expertise. There was controversy and a series of denials by some religious communities that challenged even the contents of the writings and its authenticity as well as its translation.

A brief history http://virtualreligion.net/iho/allegro.html

Well, in that blessed Copper Scroll, there are 64 sites described, scattered in a wide geographical area and in each of them were buried large amounts of gold and silver jewelry, and for the time probably priceless, liturgical vestments and perfumes refined oils and ointments, from who knows what distant countries.

The Copper Scroll is a real treasure map. Then you ask yourself; who had the idea of writing a map of a treasure?

The amount of valuable are huge, tons and tons of gold hidden, tons of silver, not to mention pottery. And 'the list of a real unimaginable wealth.

Do not worry, the roll of copper invoice is not found with the Essenes, as they affect the roll would have been very difficult and expensive, and the Essenes did not have nothing but their clothes, let alone that mighty treasure.

  In Judea at that time to obtain the pure copper so it was difficult and expensive, and riveting techniques were the same, then both hypotheses are to be discarded.

Not even the treasure as the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans took place three years later, in difficult times. To refute the thesis of the impossibility of an involvement of the Jewish community is the antipathy that the Essenes were the priests of the Second Temple, deemed "unworthy and even contemptible" (see The Last Mystery of Qumran)

In contrast to Egypt in the Old Kingdom and the New, and was much used in some of the tombs have been found, still in good condition.

In addition, it is the purity of the copper that leads us there in the ancient Egyptian techniques. Align my thesis on the fantastic people lived about thirty-five hundred years ago on the banks of the sacred river in Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty is now a breeze.

You can imagine what possessed the king in ancient Egypt in their huge mansions in a thousand temples and a thousand of them?

Gold silver gemstone jewelry scented oils equally precious vestments embroidered with gold, statues of gold and silver. We fantasize and let's make it even triple or quadruple the amount.

But why a ruling family in Egypt would have to hide all the treasure?

So I want to start with that great revolution of nearly thirty-five hundred years ago, serious and violent a change of thinking, a historic change, in a time full of pitfalls. E 'come down to us in the writings transformed the repudiation of a people who had the right to believe in his god-king, but was chased away from his own land.

In the Copper Scroll is all that the priests were able to hide, before they were driven out with the people, that is, all those who believed nell'Aton, together with the royal house. But before they listed the scribes, with writing that King Akhenaten had devised in the Golden City of the East, and that later he would speak. I know that might seem like a fantasy, but Egypt at that time was known throughout the world for its gold that as witnessed by the tablets found and written by the rulers of Babylon Hurri Ugarit "There is so much gold in Egypt like the sand in the sea. "

(Part 3)

My aim now is to bring the story to converge with some pages from the bible.

The fulcrum between the lines of the Old Testament is that people expelled from Egypt by Egyptians themselves but who no longer wanted that worship, very long time ago. The multitude that wandered in the wilderness in search of a place to stop, the promised land.

Before talking about the Bible, I have to go back and do a little introduction to the events that happened more than three thousand years ago. I state that I do not want to be disrespectful towards the Jewish people, because as they write Messod and Roger Sabbah on their extraordinary book "Secrets of the Exodus," "Teaching in Merekare explains that God can be known through the variety of creation. This presence is manifests itself in everyday life, which recognizes the creator through his creation, which arouses respect for nature and compassion for the man. Sole or multiple, visible or invisible, this is the same god in the Bible and in ancient Egypt. it 'a universal god who ignores the rivalry and that is the source of creation, which he wanted for the good and for the sake of men. Invoking his name pharaoh had a duty to ensure the peace of the peoples in the land of Egypt . the manifold was the only one, the only one was the manifold.

Spirituality is an integral part of the higher virtues: nobility, love, heroism, dignity and independence. Nature is a charm, a blessing. There is spirituality when the universe interior and exterior are in perfect harmony. Spirituality is a state of subtle simplicity, in which the beauty of the world reveals itself moment by moment.

The divine is peaceful and quiet. It does not belong to anyone.

The sculptural and pictorial representations are part of the beauty of the world, as well as religions, their joys, their parties, their traditions and sweet man. "

That's all this writing is my idea of the divine, and I end up here.

In Egypt, a religious revolution broke out, (I have simplified the historical reasons, in one of the previous posts "Only one") that affected the entire Egyptian-Middle East for what we know.

With the mysterious deaths of kings, from Akhenaten to Horembeb (at least three kings crowned and still today there are discordandi thesis, given the few elements come down to us) internal turmoil Egypt, due to the restoration of the old gods. In the eastern borders of Egypt Hittites once friends, began to occupy most of the cities that Egypt now ruled for hundreds of years. (See the Amarna letters and the history of the eighteenth dynasty)

Well you gentlemen whatever they say, in the Middle East, including the island of Cyprus and this is history, Egypt has always built temples and fortresses and it dictated laws exploiting the economy in the form of tribute called tithing. In short, the court was all Egyptian historical evidence at hand. (Amarna letters)

"In the tomb of Huya, in a relief heavily damaged and almost illegible, it is described an incident that had great importance during the" heretic "Akhenaten and Nefertiti In one scene, sitting on a palanquin carried on the shoulders of eighteen soldiers and followed by flabelliferi and dignitaries, are directed towards a kiosk where they appear neatly arranged tributes from the subject countries, the inscription reads:

"12th Year of the 2nd month (season) of peret, Day 8. Twofold Life Father Sovereign Ra-Aton who lives forever and ever. <Re The Upper and Lower Egitto> Neferkeperure Waenre, <Son of Ra> who lives in truth, Lord of the diadems, Akhenaten larger than life and the Great Royal Wife Nefertiti Neferneferuaton, who lives forever and ever. they have made appearance on the big golden palanquin to receive the tribute of Kharu (Syria ) and Kush (Nubia) West and East. gathered all the lands and islands that are in the midst of the sea bring offerings to His Majesty on the great throne which is in Akhet-Aton to receive the tribute of all the lands, that gives them the breath of life. "(Franco Cimmino page 313 Akhenaten and Nefertiti)

And now let's talk about religion. It's been too many years but has remained something and you read in the pages of this wonderful book full of suffering and love that is the Old Testament. I read it in a historical perspective, putting into account the thousands of transcripts and related additions from "modern" (buying books about books, apocryphal texts of Enoch many others) and then compare with what we have left existing in the archeology of the authentic writings (books down here too).

The Old Testament has no historical evidence, at least until the First Temple and the mysterious part that always surprises me, and it is one to which I would give a light.

The religious revolution of Akhenaton (king of Egypt of the Eighteenth) that he put aside all the gods of the Egyptian pantheon, to adore the one Aton, was slowly not just an isolated reality, but also involved the Middle East as in the city of Urussalin (Jerusalem) that the ancestors and his father Amenhotep III they had the dominion, there was a temple dedicated to Amun who at that time was an absolute god and revered by all as such, along with all the other gods of the Egyptian pantheon. In fact, under the al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount there are still remnants.

And when he became king Akhenaten turned it into the only temple of the god Aton.

Tyr (shot) there is evidence (Amarna letters) that the city was dedicated to the daughter of King Akhenaton, Marytaton and finds from the excavations are related to ancient Egypt.

So we can definitely say that the worship of one god Aton Akhenaten also existed in the Middle East.

(Part 4)

So slowly we approach the infamous Copper Scroll and its inscriptions.

One written as I have previously explained in the first part, in very old language. Remote as the people who at the time lived in the territories of the East Hanan Hatti, Babylon, Mitanni. It 'a mystery that no one has ever asked him why he had idioms similar to those peoples, yet it is so.

Here as always, I am going to make an introduction, as it is to say without trying to tell a story, something that is not my intention.

In the mythical city of Akhenaten (Akhenaton), which was located 400 to 800 meters from the Nile and extended to nine kilometers halfway between Memphis and Thebes, they spoke another language.

I can not make references to the Bible, for now, as it would be too long and intricate, of course I'll do it at the end of this story, but it is also true that among the writings emerges this topic, and anyone who has read the Old Testament, will confirm. Here everything starts to rotate between those lines, are indelible marks that nobody will ever be charged.

Akhenaten in his multi-ethnic city had devised this expedient, and therefore everything suggests that in schools, (including the remains of the city are buildings used as schools) for at least eighteen years to be taught the new language. In addition, the large harem of Akhenaten was not composed only by his concubines, but was bolstered by hundreds more, when his father Amenhotep III died and the capital was moved from Thebes to Akhenaton (modern Tell el Amarna) All these thousands of people to the most were foreigners, and all involved in the evolution of the city, lived a very different reality from the rest of Egypt. It is estimated that the city and its surroundings (the workers' camps) contained at least 60,000 inhabitants. Imagine, then, that the worshipers dell'Aton and that is all the new generations with their young and old now devoted to the new cult for many years, no longer had any idea who the other gods. No one had brought them to him to know yet for thousands of years had taken root in the rest of Egypt. (a little 'as our kids with the old lira and the euro)

The Aton was not imposed, but the reality is that in that city, everything was prepared for him, a sort of holy city. We also know that had expanded in the East (see Part Three) accordingly in the rest of Egypt a wave of renewal was changing the way people live their religion. Consider again the old priestly order (hated by Akhenaten) Amun, the richer, the more powerful the more numerous, who had also possessions in Canaan, had been abandoned and probably stripped of its treasures, and here I would like to mention a testament to how they were rich in their temples:

Here is his majesty was pleased to erect a monument very great, how come the beginning of time. He built it as a memorial to his father Amon, Lord of the Thrones of the two lands, elevating him in this part of Thebes everlasting fortress of sandstone, decorated all over with gold, and his silver gleaming floors and doors with electro . And 'wide and very long, ornate for eternity and made excellent by this stele. It contains large statues of granite, quartzite and precious stones, made to last forever. They are high highest in the sky, their radiance is reflected on the faces of men as that of the sun at its rising ...

  (Akhenaten and Nefertiti Franco Cimmino)

Hundreds of temples stripped, by the same people who had no respect for those of. So it was that Akhetaton became the richest city in Egypt and its people were the same.   The temples had to be covered with golden statues of gold ornaments floors and who knows what else.

And the palace of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti? and the palace of the concubine Kiya "the most beloved?" and this story is nothing fancy, and yet I could mention more, much more ...

Part 5

Given that the Copper Scroll is a treasure map, and this should appear by itself as a wonderful mystery. (at least for me) It is even more so when you consider the context of the discovery, as well as the testimony of other manuscripts discovered along with the above mentioned and which now lie careless in museums.

All this to me is a factor of curiosity and to get on with my account, and look even further corroborate my thesis, which indicates those writings originated, at that time to me so clear and unique, Pharaonic Egypt.

The premise is a must once again, with historical facts clear and truthful.

When the Bedouin shepherds in 1946 found in the caves of the first seven (7) scrolls, after having burned some to restart their fires in the wilderness, (sigh) decided it was worth trying to sell them and draw some money to repair their own shoes. They brought it to a shopkeeper near Bethlehem called Kando them to him that he paid five pounds. Here, as usual, puts his fate and see if that Kando was also a small antiques. He did not miss the opportunity, as he knew immediately that it was written in the scrolls tatty something of great value. He agreed with them for the following findings, promising to divide the proceeds together. So begins the adventure of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Stephen Hodge writes in his "The Dead Sea Scrolls" "When in 1947 the archaeologist Eleazar Sukenic (father of the famous Ygael Yadin) who worked at the new Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he was offered two of the seven ancient scrolls almost complete and some in fragments, he saw to his astonishment, that not only those manuscripts dating back to the period of the Second temple, but judging from the writing, it matched the grave inscriptions in which he himself was studying just that time. This testimony today appears to be more important, and yet it was and is of enormous importance because it was assumed until that moment, that the manuscripts of an era so remote, they could never be kept in the dry climate.

But the most extraordinary thing was that he had bought the Book of Isaiah, the Hymns of Thanksgiving and the Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness or roll of the war. Let us keep in mind the last two it will be useful at the end of the report.

It would take too long to tell you about the other sacred texts never incorporated and defined apocryphal (by what right?) And those who for a long time and were part of the rituals that are now denied. (I refer you to the book by Stephen Hodge, "The Dead Sea Scrolls") found later, many of them are no additions or alterations of any kind as well as free from the transcripts of medieval monks.

We now believe as this is the time, it is time to say that we evolved. We can because we have the potential, the potential to understand and read between those words that seem mysteries, but mysteries that are not. If you do not want to talk about evolution, at least in all honesty let's face it frankly, those are nothing more than memories of something truly sacred.

Well here we are in big dilemma that pursues those who venture into these meanders. The Dead Sea Scrolls are really two thousand years since the discovery was made near the site of the Essene sect, or as we tell the unsuspecting simpletons of the time but still scholars who at the time of the discovery had not yet been induced by the strong powers , and that they datarono the Second Temple?

All major religious communities pretend anything. It 'been requested DNA of goat skins for at least equate to each other, but they, from the donkey's ears that do not hear.

  If the Essenes were not those who hid them as explained in the first post, then who was it? Yet there they described the story of a very religious and devout.

  Let us remember that at the time of the First Temple in the East the great Solomon married an Egyptian princess, and that the jurisdiction of the land of Egypt was all. It 'possible that before the impending attack by the Babylonian, which destroyed the First Temple someone managed to take away the sacred writings? If so then it can not be that those writings were translated texts from the Egyptians?

 To avoid falling into a replica of one of my previous posts (one only) and not bore you with my usual chants on the sad end of a dynasty that had given so much to Egypt, sfaterò, because it will never be forgotten by those who read, some myths that revolve around the "case" Egypt-the Bible.

It 'time then for other facts. First of all - demolish the myth that for some shows as the Hyksos people Biblical driven by the Egyptians. And dismantle the lie, that the Hyksos were the monotheists.

They worshiped the Egyptian god Seth, the enemy of Osiris and trap it in their god Sutekh, also imported gods Astarte-Manat, which never took root in the country (Egypt), despite their rulers strove to attract integrate with the culture Egyptian. I will share customs and traditions, but the Egyptian people despised them as foreigners and invaders, and never accepted them.

And yet, the Hyksos, especially for those who insist in writing that the people has to do with the Holy Bible.

Hyksos in Egyptian language means "foreign rulers" and not "pastors" as you continue to write.

The Hyksos ruled from 1790 to 1543 (according Cimmino) and they were a great people, descended into Egypt from Asia.

Great builders and artisans, invaded the country, winning from the Lower to Middle Egypt, moving the capital to Avaris in the eastern Nile Delta, known as autonomous as Sethtroita. They brought with them the working of bronze, composite bows, new types of daggers and swords, also chariots and horse-drawn carts. All equipment still unknown by the Egyptian people.

The king Hamose, was the one who drove the Hyksos invaders "heqa-Kasut" Egypt, chasing them until Sharuhen in Palestine, riconquistandola. I put down the rebellions kingdom of Kush in Nubia, reaching the island of Sai, between the second and third cataracts.

The son of King Amenhotep Hamose, extended the borders to the Euphrates and in Nubia and built a stronghold at Wadi-Alpe. the king assures that the historic year of future events in Egypt and the Middle East. In fact, the Papyrus Ebers1 says: "In the ninth year of the reign of His Majesty the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Djeserkare - may he live eternally in the Festival of the New Year: the third summer month, the ninth day - an increase of Sirio "This proves the astronomical date of his birth around 1540 - 1530 BC.