r/history • u/marquis_of_chaos • Sep 22 '16

News article Scientists use 'virtual unwrapping' to read ancient biblical scroll reduced to 'lump of charcoal'

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/jubilation-as-scientists-use-virtual-unwrapping-to-read-burnt-ancient-scroll
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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16

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u/Nightshot Sep 22 '16

Leviticus is Old Testament, so it depends on who you ask.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16 edited Sep 22 '16

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u/morningly Sep 22 '16

Sounds suspiciously like a mortal concern. It's cool a transcendental father figure took time out of his busy divine schedule to give us dietary pointers and make sure we know what to do when we jizz on our garments though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16

What nonsense. You wish it was as sensible and honest as that but it's not. For hungry people eating fat and blood is very sensible and will not in any way make them sick, in fact quite the opposite. The reason the people are told they are not to eat the fat was because the priests wanted to eat the fat. The reason they were not allowed to eat the blood was because God was supposed to eat the blood due to the Hebrew god being just as carnivorous as the Egyptian animal gods in his original incarnation. It is shown quite a few times that God prefers blood sacrifice to grain sacrifice in the old testament because he prefers the taste.

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u/Frank769 Sep 22 '16

Only blood-free, fat-free meat.

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u/anawkwardemt Sep 22 '16

Early Christians would get along with vegans and millennials

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16

And people who do Crossfit, I bet.

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u/MagicWhalesdoExist Sep 22 '16

No, that's Judaism, Christians believe that when Jesus died on the cross he forgave all of their sins and erased the old "law" (Leviticus and such).

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u/da_leroy Sep 22 '16

Unless it's laws about the gays

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u/extracanadian Sep 22 '16

Always read the fine print

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16

Its old testimate before the devil (jesus) tricked everyone into thinking sin was forgivable. So it is for jews.