On Tue, 12 May 1998, Cory Holmes wrote:

Hmmmm ... I'm curious if there's anyone on the list who's actually *read*
a translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls - I don't expect that anyone has,
but it could be interesting to see whether the Scrolls actually had
something like the seventeen trials or the "messengers" which you're
referring to.

Actually, I've read that the Dead Sea Scrolls are records of a jewish sect
group.  They are records of their way of life.  They've recorded for all
time how they lived, preserved for any who want to know.

It's a collection of books kept by the Essenes, an aesetic sect who lived
around the Dead Sea.

 

I forget where I read this - probably on a web page, although it may've
been in Animerica somewhere - but the Evangelion designs were supposedly
based on a Japanese demon.

I've read the same thing, except it wasn't a Japanese demon.  It was
sometime back in the early centuries, and the judochristians (?) wrote down

Judeo-Christians


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