Scrolling and Tapping
Our weblog ODDguests today are Fayard Nicholas who is to tap dancing what God is to Christians, and Józef Milik, who was part of a small team of biblical scholars charged with deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The discovery of the Scrolls made a bit of news you might recall back in the Spring of 1947. All in all the hills around Qumran contained several caves that a large number of scrolls, as well as thousands of fragments of scrolls: the remnants of approximately 800 manuscripts dating from approximately 200 B.C.E. to 68 C.E. Many, many, many bed time stories.
The Scrolls also brought no end of controversy. What did they really say, who had/has control of them, why did such a large percentage of the scrolls remain unpublished and unaccessible and so on? Hide and go seek with history. Know the truth and the truth shall set you free. But who’s truth, eh?
Just as the Scroll’s were arriving on the scene, the Nicholas brothers - Fayard and Harold - were busy wowing any and all with their tap dancing. The legend Fred Astaire told the brothers that the “Jumpin’ Jive” dance sequence in “Stormy Weather” was the greatest musical-dance number he’d ever seen.
And yet their scenes suffered from celluloid segregation since there were no speaking parts. This meant that their scenes could easily be cut before the movies were shown to squeamish audiences. Actually the NT Times says “…squeamish audiences in the South.” Such were the times.
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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