Attention Jigsaw puzzle lovers who read Aramaic!

Hey-- all you you housebound agoraphobics who love 20,000 piece jigsaw puzzles and can translate ancient Aramaic!

The Israeli government has a treat for you! The Dead Sea Scrolls, possibly the largest and oldest jigsaw puzzle in the known world ancient or modern will soon be put on line. Up until now people actually doubted that the Dead Sea Scrolls existed, because you couldn't find them on line. (If a tree falls in the forest, and it's not in Wikipedia or on Youtube did it actually happen?) But now their existence has been confirmed. For those of you who are used to scrolling up and down, however it may come as a shock to find you can't do that. They are not scrolls in the traditional sense, they are fragments, and perhaps the Dead Sea Confetti Pieces would be a more accurate description.

But if you brush up on your ancient Aramaic, ancient Hebrew without vowel indicators, and your Ancient Greek you can have hours of fun coming up with your own creative solution to the puzzle. You can put the puzzle pieces together in more interesting ways than the current scholars. You can locate previously unknown lore, answer questions and amaze your friends. For example: Where is baseball mentioned in the Bible? Answer: In Genesis 1:1 it says: "In the big Inning..."

Kids love puzzles, so now when Florida youngsters study the Bible in public schools they can consult the original text. Or, instead of just Easter eggs why not go on a treasure hunt to find buried treasure? "One of the most curious scrolls is the Copper Scroll. Discovered in Cave 3, this scroll records a list of 64 underground hiding places throughout the land of Israel. The deposits are to contain certain amounts of gold, silver, aromatics, and manuscripts. These are believed to be treasures from the Temple at Jerusalem, that were hidden away for safekeeping." it says here.

Rabbi Schmendrake the Mediocre, who was so impoverished as a youth he has always been known as "that poor scholar," has translated some of the pieces he arranged and discovered that they are from the long lost Jewish sex manual The Kabbalat Sutra.

The monks, the Essenes who hid the scrolls in the caves, took vows of silence, so much of the Aramaic is just, in Schmendrake's words, "kvetching."

From another scroll from a different cave he has scotch taped together a fragment he maintains is the story of Jonah, but told from the point of view of the whale.