As-Salamu Aleikum wa rahmatullahi wa baraketuh,
Brothers, this topic is going to be really hot !
On Monday, February 28, 2016 I had an email conversation with Professor Eugene Ulrich, a leading Hebrew scholar of Theology, and a well-known Qumran researcher at the University of Notre Dame:
Link: http://theology.nd.edu/people/emeritus-faculty/eugene-ulrich/Most probably a Jew from Germany or Belgium.
Anyway, listen very carrefuly to this
I’ve asked him:
“Why the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) have kept Isaiah scroll for over 50 years ?”He answered:
“It sounds like you have read some unreliable books. The IAA has kept 1QIsa-a for 500+ years legitimately.” !!!
I was amazed after this response, and then in my curiosity I’ve asked him:
“The scroll 1QIsa-a was kept for over 500 years ?? From where you have taken this information ? What a minute, how 1QIsa-a was discovered in 1947 when it already have been kept by IAA from the Middle Age period (500+ years ago) ? I do not understand. Why the Jews then claims that 1QIsa-a was founded in 1947, and that was hidden in the Judean caves for over 2000 years ? I ’am really confused now. Can you explain it to me Sir ?”And now guess what he said ? In his last message from Saturday, March 12, 2016 he answered:
“That was a typo; it was 50+ years” What ? A typo ? Or perhaps you want to tells us something ? Notice what he said in his last reply:
“…it was 50+ years”Well, that's what exactly I’ve said in my previous email, when I was asking him:
“Why the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) have kept Isaiah scroll for over 50 years ?”But, then as if he felt some oppurtunity to correct me in his reply by saying:
“It sounds like you have read some unreliable books. The IAA has kept 1QIsa-a for 500+ years legitimately.”After that, as you remember I’ve asked him:
“The scroll 1QIsa-a was kept for over 500 years ?? From where you have taken this information ?....”OK, and now he says that “it was a typo” …and that he correctly meant 50+ years ? Hello, we have just returned to the exit point!
Just think. When someone attempts to hide the truth, his psychological reaction sometimes plays tricks that are out of his will, I mean.. human could admit the truth with his own tongue (either by saying or writing), even if he carefully keeping the truth. Allah knows our nature better than we ourselves!
Therefore, his last answer
"That was a typo; it was 50+ years” I personally consider as a "masking behavior" through which he was trying to correct and hide his accidentally admitted truth. I’m afraid it’s too late Professor. And, that what has happened to this scholar, i.e. he inadvertently have revealed the true account of Isaiah Scroll story [he accidentally admitted the truth and then he was trying to correct his mistake by saying that it was only a typo during writing].
Now you will understand why, since such number of years will make sense when you recall Dr. Miller’s statement that in Isaiah Scroll there are:
“many editorial markings (added after the scroll was enscribed) and altered letters, a numerals, and masoretic punctuation, and masoretic vowel marks and red ink marks that are controversial because they are anachronistic, if a date of storing the scroll is given as corresponding with the end of the Essene community to whom they originally belonged. Most of these markings are more consistent with the Middle Ages than with the Macabbean or Hasmonean period to which the scrolls have been ascribed.”Link: http://www.moellerhaus.com/Controversy/Controversy.htmThis would explain the character and origin of some markings invented to the Isaiah Scroll. They manipulated the Scroll several times during last 500 years ! Allah is the Witness and He knows best. I would like also to quote some interesting historical evidence about the corruptions of the Vatican Church. The reason of that is because according to many scholars the Israeli government have plotted with the Vatican Church when DSS were found, and it seems they have some business together.
The "Expurgatory Index"As was the case with the New Testament, so also were damaging writings of early "Church Fathers"
modified in centuries of copying, and many of their records were intentionally rewritten or suppressed. Adopting the decrees of the Council of Trent (1545–63), the Church subsequently extended
the process of erasure and ordered the preparation of a special list of
specific information to be expunged from early Christian writings (Delineation of Roman Catholicism, Rev. Charles Elliott, DD, G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, New York, 1842, p. 89; also, The Vatican Censors, Professor Peter Elmsley, Oxford, p. 327, pub. date n/a). In 1562, the Vatican established a special censoring office called Index Expurgatorius.
Its purpose was to prohibit publication of "erroneous passages of the early Church Fathers" that carried statements opposing modern-day doctrine. When Vatican archivists came across "genuine copies of the Fathers, they corrected them according to the Expurgatory Index" (Index Expurgatorius Vaticanus, R. Gibbings, ed., Dublin, 1837; The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Joseph Mendham, J. Duncan, London, 1830, 2nd ed., 1840; The Vatican Censors, op. cit., p. 328). This Church record provides researchers with
"grave doubts about the value of all patristic writings released to the public" (The Propaganda Press of Rome , Sir James W. L. Claxton, Whitehaven Books, London, 1942, p. 182). Important for our story is the fact that the Encyclopaedia Biblica reveals that around 1,200 years of Christian history are unknown: "Unfortunately, only few of the records [of the Church] prior to the year 1198 have been released". It was not by chance that, in that same year (1198), Pope Innocent III (1198–1216)
suppressed all records of earlier Church history by establishing the Secret Archives (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. xv, p. 287). Some seven-and-a-half centuries later, and after spending some years in those Archives, Professor Edmond S. Bordeaux wrote How The Great Pan Died. In a chapter titled "
The Whole of Church History is Nothing but a Retroactive Fabrication", he said this (in part):
"The Church ante-dated all her late works, some newly made, some revised and some counterfeited, which contained the final expression of her history ... her technique was to make it appear that much later works written by Church writers were composed a long time earlier, so that they might become evidence of the first second or third centuries." (How The Great Pan Died, op. cit., p. 46) Supporting Professor Bordeaux's findings is the fact that, in 1587, Pope Sixtus V (1585–90) established an official Vatican publishing division and said in his own words, "Church history will be now be established ... we shall seek to print our own account" ( E n c y c l o p é d i e, Diderot, 1759). Vatican records also reveal that Sixtus V spent 18 months of his life as pope personally writing a new Bible and then introduced into Catholicism a "New Learning" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. v, p. 442, vol. xv, p. 376). The evidence that the Church wrote its own history is found in Diderot's E n c y c l o p é d i e, and it reveals the reason why Pope Clement XIII (1758–69)
ordered all volumes to be destroyed immediately after publication in 1759.Tony Bushby, an article from “NEXUS Magazine”, vol. 14, No. 4 (June/July, 2007), pp. 58-59.
Take care, and Salam,
Ahmed (Poland, Warsaw)
