A computer search for “Sammael” (or the alternate spelling Samael) yields ZERO occurrences in the non-biblical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since we already know the name doesn’t occur in the biblical scrolls (the point above), I thought I’d look for it among the other scrolls material – sometimes the other material has commentaries on the biblical material. Marty and Peter, two of the editors, are friends of mine (we live near each other, and both have been down here to my office). You need only turn to Genesis 4 to see the first verse is missing.
#CAIN AND ABEL FATHER SERIES#
36-37) of the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD) series (Oxford University Press – the official publisher of scrolls material). This fragment was published in volume 12 (pp. The closest you get is Genesis 4:2-11, which is 4QGen b or 4Q2 (read, Qumran, Cave 4, Genesis “b” – that was the name given to the fragment – also called Qumran, Cave 4, no. Genesis 4:1, the account of Can’s birth, is not in the Dead Sea Scroll material. There are portions and scraps of every other OT book except Esther. Only the book of Isaiah can be said to be virtually complete (99% of it was found at Qumran). It is important to realize that much of the biblical material from Qumran is partial and fragmentary. Genesis 4:1 was NOT found among the textual remains of the Hebrew Bible among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here’s the truth about this particular web gem. That’s just one reason the scrolls were kept from the public for so long. Thankfully, the Dead Sea Scrolls preserve it. The Bible covers all this up since its editors removed it. This is why Cain was “marked” by God later on-God hated him since the serpent was his father.
What really happened in Eden (Genesis 3) was that Eve was seduced by the serpent (whose name was Sammael), they had sex, and produced Cain (Genesis 4). Though there are by no various expressions of it online, the nonsense goes something like this. At any rate, he wasn’t anyone who knew anything about the Bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, or the other material I’ll touch on. I don’t know who started this on the internet-probably one of those “I found secret knowledge about the Bible” people who start followings in cyberspace. I’ve gotten more emails on this topic than I can shake a stick at, so I’ve decided to blog it and then just direct people to this post in the future.