Jonathan, I apologise for any offence. But if you are really a pure-blooded Jew I am surprised that you don't find Pastor Herrell's material far more offensive.
I don't hold anyone as immune. But conspiracies should be alleged (especially in this very sensitive area) only when there is proper evidence for them. Some simple checking of the facts, by Pastor Herrell or by yourself, should make it clear that in this case the evidence does not exist.
I don't understand this comment. Are you suggesting that the New Testament gives evidence of a Jewish conspiracy? The most that you can legitimately read from it is that a particular group of Jews plotted against Jesus and against the early church. That is not the same as saying that Jews in general did.
1) That what certain Jews were saying to Jerome, presumably about the priority of the Hebrew text over the LXX, was untrue. Well, this is one of Herrell's main themes, and I think it has been thoroughly discredited by the evidence given by S?ren and Dave.
2) That the Jews knew that what they were saying was untrue. This is without any foundation and highly improbable. Whether or not they were correct, they were surely sincere and not deliberately deceiving anyone.
3) That the dialogue between Jews and Jerome was the start of an ongoing process. Sadly, this was not true. During Jerome's time the western empire was overrun by "barbarians" (my ancestors!) and contact between the western church and the Palestinian Jewish community was lost.
3) What Herrell says about the contents of the scrolls has been thoroughly discredited by the data posted on this list. Herrell may have been writing partly from ignorance before 1991. He made certain assumptions about the content of unpublished material which have now been shown clearly to be false.
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