Scan Request - 2012 JW Calendar Jan/Feb Image (another artistic blunder?)

LostGeneration

Can someone post this in this thread please? I don't know why the wife didn't get any JW calenders for 2012, but I was over at my Dad's last night and looked through his for a few minutes.

In the upper right corner, it had a woman reading through a scroll, and I could swear it was referring to Abraham and Sarah. Now I'm no bible scholar, but I would find it pretty unusual for Sarah to be reading through a scroll. I mean, this was supposedly several hundred years before Moses even got the 10 Commandments (written in stone) from YHWH, right?

NOLAW

And why shouldn't she be reading through a scroll?

jgnat

No scan, sorry. You got me thinking. Convention has Abraham living about 2,000 BC.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100106142436AA13x7b

Alphabetic writing was developed for Semitic workers about the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing#Writing_systems

It is a stretch, but possible, that works would have been available on papyrus.

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/papyrus.htm

The same for parchment.

David Diringer noted that "the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty (c. 2550-2450 B.C.E.), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty (c. twenty-fourth century B.C.E.)

The bigger question; could the common woman read?

smiddy

Maybe she was just looking at the pictures.lol

smiddy

jgnat

Another little tid-bit. The story of Abraham was passed down by oral tradition until the 6th to 5th century BC. So Sarah would not be reading, for instance, the story of Noah or Adam and Eve.

"... the sixth-to-fifth century B.C., when Jewish scribes first wrote down the oral tradition of Abraham's story as they put together the Hebrew Bible"

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/amen/a/122710-CW-Archaeological-Evidence-About-The-Story-Of-Abraham-In-The-Bible.htm

jgnat

Looking at the pictures, LOL.

Atlantis

2012 Calendars of Jehovah's Witnesses * See age 2 over on the right hand side. ( Sarah/scrolls ) * When you get to sendspace click the link in the long blue box that says, ( Click here to download from sendspace ). * http://www.sendspace.com/file/xu19p8 * * * Nevada

lrkr

The real question is- why dont they show the rest of the story- Abraham tying his son up- putting him on the camp fire and taking out a big knife to cut his throat??

I cant believe Abraham is such a hero to so many religions. He was a religious fanatic psychopath!!

LostGeneration

Thanks Atlantis!

Maybe its kind of nit-picky, but if the WTS is going to go around bragging that they take the time to make sure everything they put in print is accurate (yeah right) then they have to realize that people are going to check their work.

IMHO, its absurd that Sarah would have a scroll at this point in history. As jgnat mentions, could she even read is the first question. Next, what would she be reading? Even if you accept the JW concept that Moses wrote the first five books of the bible, then that is at least several hundred years later. A quick scan of Wiki has most of the Torah being written between 600 to 400 BC.

It just goes back to their publishing house mentality, that all of these ancients had their own copies of the bible all of the time. Another similar thread I started:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/220789/2/1st-Century-Dude-with-a-Bible-in-Yesterdays-WT

Also the picture is of a woman about 30 to 40 years old. Wouldn't Sarah be about 100 years old?

dreamgolfer

Me thinks they were coupons from the Sunday Papers

Scan Request - 2012 JW Calendar Jan/Feb Image (another artistic blunder?)

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