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myOtaku.com: Miss Anonymous


Thursday, November 9, 2006

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Normally, I like to wait til 9:00 pm to post, so it'll carry over into the next day, but I don't have the time for that tonight.

A couple days ago, I went and saw the Dead Sea scrolls with my family (as I mentioned in the previous post). The Dead Sea scrolls are really important, because before then the oldest copies of the Bible were from the 11th century; these are from around Jesus' time. They aren't just Bible copies, though; there was also something called "Book of War", which is apparently about what the Jews thought Christ would be like. The Jews exspected Jesus to go into battle and free them from their oppressors; twas very interesting.
The exhibit itself had a lot of stuff; mostly background information about the people who wrote the documents and where they lived, Qumran. I also found out why the Dead Sea is called the Dead Sea; it has the most salt deposits out of any other body of water in the world, you can't drink it at all. Also, the scrolls were able to stay intact for so long until their discovery in the 1940s because the area of Qumran is so dry; it only gets 4 inches of rain every year, and all in winter.
There was a lot of other stuff too, but let's talk about the actual scrolls now. It was pretty amazing; I honestly exspected them to be bigger, but they're really small. Some of them are barely legible, while the one of Psalm 119 was in such great condition. Man, the Psalm 119 scroll was so cool; it's the biggest scroll out of the bunch. You can totally read the writing on it too; unlike Exodus, which was almost impossible to read.
All in all, it was great. I get this feeling that I didn't fully appreciate what I was seeing. Unless I plan on going to Israel later in life, I'll never really see those again.

Just another little detail. I decided to change the song on my site, but I haven't finished uploading the MP3 yet. Hopefully, by the time you guys read this, I'll have it up. I thought it would be cool to have a .hack//Roots song up there, since I haven't done any from the new generation yet. The name of the song is shining of breast.
And yes, Nehszriah; .hack music owns ALL.

EDIT: Okay, so that new song isn't working out right now. So, I'll find a different MP3 link that'll have to do. T_T Darn it.

God Bless
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