Monday, December 31, 2007

The Qumran Community and the Dead Sea Scrolls


The Dead Sea community was a social experiment that lasted only 15 years, yet represented one distinct sect of our people that lived each day with the notion that the messiah would arrive during their lifetime. No account is certain when they existed there, but it was between two thousand and 2,230 years ago. They wrote the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, which contained both Jewish and cultic materials.



New Year’s Night – St. Sylvester’s Day

New Year’s Eve is called “Sylvester, and is becoming more popular as a time to go out to dinner, have a party, and generally to relax and bring in the New Year. At this writing we are about three hours before the start of the New Year, but restaurants are full and many Israelis are celebrating. We will throw ourselves a party in about an hour, and then it’s off for another full day of touring tomorrow.

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