#97 Kipp Davis - What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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Alex O'Connor

Religion, Morality, Ethics, Society & Culture, Cosmicskeptic, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 135 minutes

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Kipp Davis (‪@DrKippDavis‬) is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway, where he specialises in the assignment and reconstruction of fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and their interpretation. (Google Books)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons, including deuterocanonical manuscripts from late Second Temple Judaism and extrabiblical books. At the same time, they cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of Rabbinic Judaism. (Wikipedia)

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0:00.0	uh there's kind of a cachet with the scrolls too it just sort of feels like like i notice that
0:07.6	with the danny jones podcast too right like in the uh the the episode i did with him i think has
0:16.1	has 700 000 views or what have you where like it's it's twice as many as like the stuff that he did for
0:29.1	several months prior to that and then afterwards too right so it's but i think no, I mean, maybe, but I suspect as soon as you stick that in the title, people are like, well, this is the, this is the Dan Brown effect, right?
0:50.2	This is the one thing prior to when I read the novel.
0:55.5	I heard about the novel, but people were like super excited about it, right?
1:02.0	And I figured I need to read this.
1:05.5	And when I did read it, I chuckled because there's like this one part in it where he meets with the with with the
1:16.8	the scholar philanthropist billionaire what's his name teabing i think is the is the character's name
1:24.2	who's providing him all this evidence, right, for the, for the
1:28.6	the Meravengean connection to Jesus. And then he's like, well, you know, where does, like,
1:34.8	tracing the threads of this, he's like, how far back to you connect this or where does this connect?
1:39.3	And the guy just says, well, all you have to do is read the Dead sea scrolls and that was it that's the it's
1:45.7	the only thing he said about say right does it really does he really does and it probably it's it's
1:53.2	the sort of thing that most people would not uh remember right but because it's me because it's any who's, who's in the field, it's all, we're
2:03.5	like fucking guy, right?
2:05.3	Like, it, it just, it's, it's like, and he doesn't explain anything either.
2:12.1	Like, it just doesn't even attempt.
2:13.6	It's just a throwaway line.
2:15.7	And I'm sure it's because it sounds great.
2:19.7	Well, the thing about the D.
2:21.1	The D.S.
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