Friday Letters to the Editor

the press telegram is very narrow minded and one sided, never be the truth printed, really a third rate rag

"First names are typically used by elders for children, owners for pets, masters for servants"

Well I must have got it wrong. I call my wife by her 1st name-no she's not a child! My 90 year old neighbor by her first name. I must have deprived pets, they only have one name each! Now you've made me wonder if that one name is the forename or the surname.

As for the master servant thing, do you live in Newport Beach? We haven't had that rule in Long Beach in the last century, must be the lack of servants.

Hank,you're right on the money with your comment. There's more news in the Pennysaver.

Actually, some real journalism has been practiced at the OC Weekly!

In the Saturday article related to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Matti Friedman makes a couple of large mistakes. The first was the use of the archaic term B.C.(i.e. before Christ) rather than the currently accepted term B.C.E.(i.e. before the common era). When referring to Jewish items, the proper usage is B.C.E.

The second mistake was the statement that the Dead Sea Scrolls "shed light on... the origins of early Christianity." This was the view of the scrolls in the 1940s and 1950s when the Catholic Church controlled them. However, since the late 1960s, when the State of Israel took control of the scrolls, there has been a better understanding of the origins of the scrolls and their meaning. They do not shed light on early Christianity, but are a record of the day of a specific Jewish sect that had removed themselves from what they viewed as the corruption of society of their day. Nothing more.

In future articles related to a a specific group, make sure your facts about that group are correct. There are plenty of Jewish Dead Sea Scroll scholars in the area to consult with so that errors are not printed in the paper.