The sectbelieved that human nature and all that happens in the world is predestined. The scroll ends withsongs of praise of God. The scroll was found in cave 4 and cave 5 and It was written onparchment.
The longest version was found in cave 4.8The War Rule is commonly referred to as the Pierced Messiah text. It refers to aMessiah who came from the line of David, to be brought to a judgment and then to a killing.
Itanticipates the New Testament view of the preordained death of the messiah. It is written in aHebrew script and is only a six line fragment.9 Most of the scrolls were found in caves near Qumran. The Qumran site was excavated tofind the habitation of those who deposited the scrolls in the nearby caves. The excavationsuncovered plates bowls and cemeteries with over twelve hundred graves that have the samecharacteristics which suggest religious uniformity, along with a complex of structures which suggested that they were communal in presentation.10 Many believe this is where a community ofa distant Jewish sect called the Essenes may have once lived.
Soil ErosionExamining soil erosion has brought some great public debates to bear. These debates have resulted because this issue affects the money and power that be, and others: developers, casinos, hotels, and homeowners. Lake Tahoe’s population has increased dramatically over the past few decades and can inflate to over a quarter of a million people on peak holiday weekends.(See figure 3) One debate involving soil erosion is whether the logging activities of the 1800′s are what has caused the lake clarity reduction we’re combating today.
However, extensive studies and reconstruction of the effects that the logging might have caused have concluded that the lumbering activities were undetectable and little impact on the clarity.”The major changes in the lake documented in recent years are much greater and longer lasting than those, if any, resulting from the 1800′s logging of the basin.”(5:4)Disrupted soil and enhanced run-off, vegetation removal, fire, and the loss of wetlands, over the last thirty years, are all nutrient providing elements that have accelerated the growth of plankton and attached algae.
The building boom of the 1960′s and 1970′s paid little concern to the environmental impacts they were causing, by paving roads, cutting into the slopes, destroying wetlands, and more. The area where there was earth is now paved, which in turn causes more phosphorus-rich sediment to run into the lake. The surface water runoff and eroded soil carry the pollutants to the stream that feed into the Lake, and are directly attributed to the increase in algae population. The wetland areas are proven to buffer the land from receiving waters, like an antacid buffers from the foods eaten and your stomach lining.