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Deception of Dead
Sea Scrolls
Deception of Dead Sea
Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls.org claims that Scroll dates range from the third
century bce (mid–Second Temple period) to the first century of the
Common Era, before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.
Hebrew is the most frequently used language in the Scrolls, about
15% were written in Aramaic and several in Greek.
(http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-
scrolls/introduction)
But the language of first century Israel was Aramaic. Not Hebrew and
Greek.

In Acts 1:19, Field of Blood was known to all the inhabitants of


Jerusalem in their own tongue as Akel Dama which is the
transliteration of Aramaic words “Haqal Dama.” (Book "What do
Jewish People think about Jesus?" by Dr. Michael Brown, Page 39).

Hebrew Priest Josephus differentiates Hebrew from his language.

In Judean Wars and Antiquities of Judeans, Hebrew is called “Hebrew


tongue” while Aramaic as our tongue or our language.

Unlike Hebrew Priest Josephus and other Hebrew Priests at


Jerusalem, the people of first century Israel had no knowledge of
Hebrew.
That is why whenever Apostles say Hebrew in New Testament (John
19:13, John 19:17), the word comes up is transliteration of an
Aramaic word.

For Example, the word “Golgotha” (John 19:17) is transliteration of


Aramaic word “Gagultha.” (John 19:17 in Aramaic Peshitta)

“tha” in both Gagultha and transliterated word “Golgotha” is Aramaic


definite article on a feminine noun in an emphatic state (Book
"Introduction to Syriac" by Wheeler Thackston, Page 44).

Aramaic definite article “tha” can also be seen in Mark 5:41 where
Jesus Christ says “Talitha Cumi.” It must be noted that female names
in New Testament such as Tabitha and Martha has Aramaic definite
article “tha.”

Unlike Aramaic, Hebrew definite article (“Ha”) is always at the


beginning of the word. For Example, “Ha” in “Haaretz” newspaper.
According to Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Aramaic was
the language of First century Israel and early second century Israel until
False Messiah Simon Bar Kokhba revived Hebrew during Bar Kokhba
revolt (132-135 AD). Yadin noticed the shift from Aramaic to Hebrew
during the time of Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 AD).

In his book "Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the
last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome" Yigael Yadin notes, "It is
interesting that the earlier documents are written in Aramaic while the
later ones are in Hebrew. Possibly the change was made by a special
decree of Bar Kokhba who wanted to restore Hebrew as the official
language of the state"(page 181).

In the book "A Roadmap to the Heavens: An Anthropological Study of


Hegemony among Priests, Sages, and Laymen (Judaism and Jewish
Life)" by Sigalit Ben-Zion (page 155), Yadin said: "it seems that this
change came as a result of the order that was given by Bar Kokhba, who
wanted to revive the Hebrew language and make it the official language
of the state."
Yadin says on page 124 of his book "Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the
legendary hero of the last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome."

"The first thing that struck us was that for no apparent reason some of
the letters were written in Aramaic and some in Hebrew. Jews at that
period were versed in both languages, yet since most of the letters were
in Aramaic, possibly Hebrew had just lately been revived by a Bar-
Kokhba decree. I remembered that when I showed the letters to Mr. Ben-
Gurion, then the Prime Minister, only the Aramaic documents had yet
been opened. "Why did they write in Aramaic and not Hebrew?" was his
immediate angry reaction, as if the scribes had been members of his
staff.“

It must be noted that when Yadin says Jews, he is referring to Judeans.


Judean(s) is often mistakenly written as Jew(s). Hebrew Priest Josephus
points out that Judeans is the name Hebrews were called by from the
day that they came up from Babylon, which is taken from the tribe of
Judah, which came first to these places, and thence both they and the
country gained that appellation (Antiquities of Judeans 11:5:7).
Judaism only began in 500 AD with the completion of Babylonian
Talmud. A Jew is someone who follows Judaism.

Jewish Rabbi Stephen Wise (Formerly Chief Rabbi of United States)


said, "The return from Babylon and the adoption of the Babylonian
Talmud, marks the end of Hebrewism and the beginning of Judaism.”
(Book "The F.O.J. Syndrome in America: Bamboozled Americans and
their vile brainwashers", Page 253-254, American Mercury, Volume 6)

"The Bavli [Babylonian Talmud] has formed the definitive statement of


Judaism from the time of its closure to the present day." — Rabbi Dr.
Neusner (Rabbi Dr. Jacob Neusner, quoted by Norman F. Cantor, The
Sacred Chain (A History of the Jews), page 112).

"Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to


call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew." -- under the heading
of "A Brief History of the Terms for Jew", The Jewish Almanac,
October, 1980, page 3, Bantam Books, Inc.
Yadin also mentioned certain details about Bar Kokhba letters. Bar
Kokhba’s original name was Simon Bar Kosiba.

Yigael Yadin mentions that out of 15 Bar Kokhba letters from Bar
Kokhba revolt (132-135 AD) found at Nahal Hever, 9 of them are in
Aramaic, 4 in Hebrew, and 2 in Greek (The Biblical Archaeologist, Vol.
24, No. 3 (Sep., 1961), Page 86).

Aramaic word "Bar” (construct form) means Son (Book "Introduction


to Syriac" Page. 197).

Several names in New Testament (first century AD) start with Bar -
"Bar"tholomew, "Bar"abbas, "Bar"nabbas, Simon "Bar" Jonah, Joseph
called "Bar"sabbas, "Bar" Timaeus, "Bar" Jesus, and Judas called
"Bar"sabbas.

But not a single name in Hebrew word “Ben” which is the Hebrew word
for Son (http://biblehub.com/hebrew/1121.htm).
Yadin provided details about both early letters and later letters of Bar
Kokhba revolt.

Here is an early letter written in Aramaic (Below information from


Yigael Yadin's article Expedition D (Cave of Letters) - Israel Exploration
Journal Vol. 12, No. 3-4, THE EXPEDITION TO THE JUDEAN DESERT,
1961 (1962), pp. 249-250). [ ] in Simeon below is probably referring to
damaged portion of the scroll.

Document 42 - "On the first day of Iyyar, in the first year of the
redemption of Israel [by Simeo]n Bar Kosiba, Prince of Israel.“

But when the letters started to be written in Hebrew in later years, Bar
Kosiba in Aramaic became Ben Kosiba in Hebrew. Here is an example.

Document 44 - "On the 28th of Marheshvan, in the third year of Simeon


Ben Kosiba, Prince of Israel; at Engedi."
According to Book "Naming the Witch: Magic, Ideology, and
Stereotype in the Ancient World" written by Kimberly B. Stratton (p.
232), Yadin suggests that Bar Kokhba was trying to revive Hebrew by
decree as part of his messianic ideology.

Yigael Yadin mentions that 3 Bar Kokhba documents he and his team
found at Nahal Hever are written in Mishnaic Hebrew (The Biblical
Archaeologist, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Sep., 1961), Pg. 93).

Mishnaic Hebrew had massive influences from Aramaic. Many Aramaic


words were borrowed into Mishnaic Hebrew when Hebrew was revived
during Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 AD).

Hebrew scholar David Steinberg points out that Mishnaic Hebrew had
the profound influence of spoken Aramaic in vocabulary, semantics,
and grammar including inflection; and the lesser influence of Greek
(http://www.adath-shalom.ca/history_of_hebrew.htm#mishheb)
Dead Sea Scrolls also contains several documents in Greek.

But Josephus points out Greek wasn’t spoken in first century Israel
and extreme rarity in terms of a Hebrew (aka Judean) knowing Greek in
first century AD - Antiquities of Judeans Book 1, Preface, Paragraph 2
and Antiquities of Judeans Book XX, XI.

This is also agreed by Dead Sea Scrolls Archaeologist Yigael Yadin


who points that the lingua franca of the time period was Aramaic (
Book "Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the last
Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome" Page 234).

Yadin points out that Babatha Documents written from 93 to 132 AD


was written in Nabatean, Aramaic, and Greek (Yigael Yadin's article
Expedition D (Cave of Letters) - Israel Exploration Journal Vol. 12, No.
3-4, THE EXPEDITION TO THE JUDEAN DESERT, 1961 (1962), Page
235). None of them are in Hebrew.
Babatha Documents contain Greek due to the fact that after Rabael II
(King of Nabataean Kingdom) died in 106 AD, Roman Emperor Trajan
dissolved the Nabataean Kingdom and created Roman Provincia
Arabia. It must be noted that all of the Greek documents in Babatha
Documents are later than 106 AD (Book "Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery
of the legendary hero of the last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome"
Page 232, 235).

In his book "Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the
last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome" (Page 252), Yigael Yadin
points out that the last Babatha document was written in August 19,
132 AD during the first year of Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 AD).

Babatha was remotely connected to Yehonathan Bar Be'ayan who was


the commander of En-gedi under Bar Kokhba's administration (Book
"Bar Kokhba: The rediscovery of the legendary hero of the last Jewish
Revolt Against Imperial Rome“, Page 249).
It must be noted that Josephus’ Judean Wars Book number Six of
Aramaic version still survives.

Josephus’ Judean wars Book Six in Aramaic and Aramaic Old


Testament books including Apocryphal books are available in Book
“Ceriani Veteris Testamentum” which is available here -
https://archive.org/details/CerianiVeterisTestamentum7a1PeshittaTana
khAramaicOldTestament

It must be noted that Josephus’ Judean Wars in surviving Greek


versions is not written by Josephus. It is believed that several portions
of Josephus' Greek manuscript of Judean Wars was damaged and the
later scribes (inexperienced in Aramaic) had to translate from
Josephus' Aramaic version of Judean Wars into Greek in order to
restore the damaged portions of Josephus' Greek version of Judean
Wars which resulted in severe mistranslations.
Many of the errors and contradictions in Greek versions of Judean
wars Book Six is solved by Aramaic version of Judean Wars Book Six
which can be read here -
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Josephus%27_Judean_Wars

So the conclusion is that Dead Sea Scrolls (excluding Babatha's


Documents) were written only from the time period of Bar Kokhba
revolt (132 -135 AD), because Bar Kokhba letters were written in 3
languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek), Yadin's testimony that
Hebrew was revived by Bar Kokhba during Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135
AD), Hebrew Priest Josephus' testimony on Greek not being the
language of first century Israel, and also the information provided by
New Testament on Aramaic.

It must be noted that New Testament is written in Aramaic. Not in


Greek or Hebrew. All of the information about Aramaic New Testament
(aka Aramaic Peshitta) is available here -
https://archive.org/details/NTAramaic
Jewish Deception of Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scrolls.org deceptively claims that Scroll dates range
from the third century bce (mid–Second Temple period) to the first
century of the Common Era, before the destruction of the Second
Temple in 70 CE.

This has to do with the fact that Jews want to completely eliminate
Aramaic and establish Hebrew as the language of first century
Israel.

"Distorting the history of first century Israel and also the centuries
before first century Israel by using Dead Sea Scrolls as evidences"
can be driven by the fact that Talmud discourages in using Aramaic
while Talmud encourages Holy Tongue ("Hebrew" revived by
Pseudo Messiah Bar Kokhba), Greek, and Persian language.
Jewish Deception of Dead Sea Scrolls
Baba Kamma 82b-83a (in Babylonian Talmud) - Was it not taught
that Rabbi stated: 'Why use the Syriac language in Eretz Yisrael
[where] either the Holy Tongue or the Greek language [could be
employed]? And R. Jose said: Why use the Aramaic language in
Babylon [where] the Holy Tongue or the Persian language [could be
used]?

In the conversation between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Pope


Francis
(https://archive.org/details/LanguageOfJesusChristByPopeFrancisA
ndNetanyahu), Netanyahu said Jesus spoke Hebrew. Netanyahu
doesn't mention Aramaic at all. But Pope Francis "immediately"
corrects him by pointing out that Jesus Christ spoke Aramaic.
But Netanyahu goes on to claim that Jesus spoke Aramaic and
knew Hebrew.
Jewish Deception of Dead Sea Scrolls
But as mentioned in this Powerpoint, Aramaic was the language of
first century Israel and early second century Israel until Hebrew was
revived by False Messiah Simon Bar Kokhba during Bar Kokhba
revolt (132-135 AD). The immediate anger of Israeli Prime Minister
Ben Gurion (slide 6) about Bar Kokhba letters being written in
Aramaic must also be noted.

The religion of Old Testament is Hebrewism (aka Judeanism).

Another purpose of Dead Sea Scrolls being dated from 300 BC to 70


AD is to deceptively make society Jewish by using Christianity.

As mentioned before, Judaism only began in 500 AD with the


completion of Babylonian Talmud & it is a reconstruction out of
Pharisaism.
Jewish Deception of Dead Sea Scrolls
“Pharisaism shaped the character of Judaism and the life and
thought of the Jew for all the future.” - The 1905 edition of the
Jewish Encyclopedia says under the subject of “Pharisees”

On page 59 of “Judaism and The Christian Predicament,” Rabbi Ben


Zion Bokser says: “This is not an uncommon impression and one
finds it sometimes among Jews as well as Christians; that Judaism
is the religion of the Hebrew Bible. It is, of course, a fallacious
impression. Judaism is not the religion of the Bible.”

Judaism is Anti-Christian since it was a reconstruction out of


Pharisaism. The holy book of Judaism is Babylonian Talmud.

The London Jewish World of March 15, 1923 declared:


"Fundamentally, Judaism is anti-Christian."
Jewish Deception of Dead Sea Scrolls
Rabbi Martin Siegel mentions the Jewish plan to make the society
Jewish by using Christianity.

Rabbi Martin Siegel: "I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a


discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish
century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-idealogical
blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories
and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to
provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the
Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle
through which this society becomes Jewish.” (New York Magazine,
January 18, 1972, p. 32).
Jewish Deception of Dead Sea Scrolls
Other Infos

It must be noted that “YA” in Aramaic word “MarYA” (Master YA) in


Aramaic Old Testament is Aramaic form of Hebrew “YH.”

In first century Israel, Aramaic form “YA” was used in names like
Yoseph (Joseph), Yonathan (Jonathan mentioned in Josephus’
Judean Wars Book Six), Yochanan (John), etc.

But when Bar Kokhba revived Hebrew during Bar Kokhba revolt
(132-135 AD), Hebrew “YH” began to replace Aramaic “YA.” So
Yoseph became Yehoseph, Yonathan became Yehonathan, and
Yochanan became Yehochanan.

More infos here - http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/YA_and_YH

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