Comments on: Coming Soon to the Internets: Digitized Dead Sea Scrolls http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/21/coming-soon-to-the-internets-digitized-dead-sea-scrolls/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: john http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/21/coming-soon-to-the-internets-digitized-dead-sea-scrolls/comment-page-1/#comment-52392 john Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:13:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=13462#comment-52392 the dss have been around for 60 years. where are the translations ? i think an infinite number of monkeys "using" an infinite number of typewriters ................. 900 "scrolls" of 3000 pieces ...... put the monkeys on computer keyboards and crunch away. did the rosetta stone produce a new important piece of info in themselves other than how to "translate" the third language ? i've been waiting for cheap translations of the scrolls to hit the nybestsellerlist and haven't read anything that i'd want to repeat. 60 years has been too long. i'm tired of waiting. the dss have been around for 60 years. where are the translations ? i think an infinite number of monkeys “using” an infinite number of typewriters …………….. 900 “scrolls” of 3000 pieces …… put the monkeys on computer keyboards and crunch away. did the rosetta stone produce a new important piece of info in themselves other than how to “translate” the third language ? i’ve been waiting for cheap translations of the scrolls to hit the nybestsellerlist and haven’t read anything that i’d want to repeat. 60 years has been too long. i’m tired of waiting.

]]> By: john raguso http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/21/coming-soon-to-the-internets-digitized-dead-sea-scrolls/comment-page-1/#comment-52160 john raguso Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:10:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=13462#comment-52160 Wouldn't it be easier if they just xeroxed the scrolls and put them on a PDX file ? Wouldn’t it be easier if they just xeroxed the scrolls and put them on a PDX file ?

]]> By: Eliza Strickland http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/21/coming-soon-to-the-internets-digitized-dead-sea-scrolls/comment-page-1/#comment-51270 Eliza Strickland Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:25:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=13462#comment-51270 @ whoschad: Right you are, looks like we read an erroneous report. Thanks for the correction -- I fixed the post. -- Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor @ whoschad: Right you are, looks like we read an erroneous report. Thanks for the correction — I fixed the post.

– Eliza, DISCOVER online news editor

]]> By: whoschad http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/10/21/coming-soon-to-the-internets-digitized-dead-sea-scrolls/comment-page-1/#comment-51255 whoschad Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:02:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=13462#comment-51255 The Gospel of Judas was not found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Gospel of Judas was not found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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