# Dead sea rolls **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 20, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002 "2002-05-20T21:49:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/21 "2002-05-23T06:32:37Z")
Serious answers?!?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Lord god in heaven. What has this thread turned into? Dead Sea Rolls? Is that like love handles? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/22 "2002-06-04T04:16:07Z")
According to ancient legend, a priest was admitted to heaven and was granted permission to view the original manuscripts of the Bible. After several days of study, the priest ran out of the Library, wailing and tearing at his hair. “No!” he screamed, “It says we should celebrate, not be celibate!” ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/23 "2002-06-04T15:48:19Z")
Maybe Martin Luther would have had more success on his Diet of Worms if he could have had some Dead Sea Rolls to take with him. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/24 "2013-01-11T05:35:20Z")
According to Ezekiel, they taste like honey. (I wonder if God made the opposite mistake as the OP.) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/25 "2013-01-11T05:39:37Z")
You bumped an eleven year old thread for _that_? You could have at least said that Ezekiel said they taste like braiiinss or something. Sheesh! ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/26 "2013-01-11T06:34:24Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > According to Ezekiel, they taste like honey. > > (I wonder if God made the opposite mistake as the OP.) > [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > You bumped an eleven year old thread for _that_? You could have at least said that Ezekiel said they taste like braiiinss or something. Sheesh! Even worse, the scrolls that Ezekiel ate _in a vision_ have nothing to do with the Dead Sea Scrolls, or the OP’s unfortunate typo of ‘rolls’ which brought up the whole eating nonsense, which again, has nothing to do with either Ezekiel’s eating of scrolls in a vision or the actual Dead Sea Scrolls. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/27 "2013-01-11T08:50:25Z")
And while this thread has popped up The [Dead Sea Scrolls Online](http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/) Si ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/28 "2013-01-11T09:17:30Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > Actually, they were still very gnoshtic. Made for a good nosh? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/29 "2013-01-11T09:19:56Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > According to Ezekiel, they taste like honey. > > (I wonder if God made the opposite mistake as the OP.) Nice cite. Didn’t they also taste like burning coals sometime? ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/30 "2013-01-11T09:21:50Z")
Crap, I didn’t know that I just complimented a zombie bump made just to let fly a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/31 "2013-01-11T13:38:39Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > Actually, they were still very gnoshtic. Even though it’s an old thread, I have to say, I liked this reply very much. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/32 "2013-01-11T14:53:04Z")
And wouldn’t they be bagels? Actually bagels that float. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/33 "2013-01-11T16:00:52Z")
Dear Lord, three things I pray… ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/34 "2013-01-11T16:16:25Z")
I like the idea of **BigT** spending the last decade trying to find the perfect Dead Sea Rolls pun. Keeping a log of different ideas, paying groups of people money to listen to his ideas so he can carefully screen-test each one. His family has left him, driven away by his obsession, his friends avoid him, not wanting to hear hours of analysis of his different ideas. Then Bam! > [@BigT](#): > > According to Ezekiel, they taste like honey. And all of a sudden, its all been worth it. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/35 "2013-01-11T16:24:53Z")
Zombie Dead Sea Rolls. Now I have seen everything. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/36 "2013-01-11T16:47:53Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Zombie Dead Sea Rolls. Now I have seen everything. Complete with [Zombie Apocrypha](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2123774&postcount=20)! ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/37 "2013-01-11T17:06:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Does that include the Apocrypha? Or Esther Rolle? ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/38 "2013-01-11T17:14:03Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Didn’t they also taste like burning coals sometime? I hope not - in the book of Ezekiel, he was supposed to cook the bread over a fire made with human feces. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/39 "2013-01-11T17:28:05Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I like the idea of **BigT** spending the last decade trying to find the perfect Dead Sea Rolls pun. Keeping a log of different ideas, paying groups of people money to listen to his ideas so he can carefully screen-test each one. His family has left him, driven away by his obsession, his friends avoid him, not wanting to hear hours of analysis of his different ideas. > > Then Bam! I say we get Richard Dreyfuss to play him in the movie. Richard Dreyfuss and lots of mashed potatoes. ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002/40 "2013-01-11T18:50:35Z")
Is it true that the scrolls are kept in a specially made bunker that can go underground and automatically gets covered by slabs of lead in case of nuclear war? Or was that for another historical artifact? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-sea-rolls/110002.md?page=3)