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Re: orion cryptic scripts
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Jim West wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone cares to offer a rationale as to why some
> Qumran
> documents (specifically 4Q298) are written in some cryptic script. To
> what end?
>
To keep you from reading it, Jim (g). I think the cryptic scrolls
were so
written to keep the novices or initiates to the "yahad" from reading
them
until they reached a stage when they were ready for "secret wisdom."
Jack
--
D’man dith laych idneh d’nishMA nishMA
Jack Kilmon (jpman@accesscomm.net)
http://users.accesscomm.net/scriptorium