Dead Sea scrolls

The archealogical site I focused my research on was the Dead Sea Scrolls dig, with the corresponding site of Khirbet Qumran, Israel. The sites were home to 972 manuscripts made up of scrolls, fragments and other texts. These manuscripts covered a large chunk, nearly the whole Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Period non-canonized amd gnostic texts, and other various Jewish sectarian manuscripts. Best put, “The impact of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the question of the text of the Hebrew Bible has been not merely provocative but explosive” (Crawford 2002:84) To start off, the site of this dig was off the Dead Sea in an area called Qumran, Israel. The sites were near the birthplace of Judaism and modern Christianity and have a long history…

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a well-known archaeological finding of manuscripts that recorded biblical documents and religious history, copied in the second century. The scrolls were discovered in the years 1947-1956, at Khirbet Qumran, a large area of the Dead Sea’s northwestern shore. These scrolls were retrieved from eleven different caves and are classified in three categories: Jewish literature (400 manuscripts), biblical books (200, manuscripts) and Sectarian compositions (200 manuscripts).…

The Dead Sea Scrolls are collection of some 981 different texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 in eleven caves (Qumran caves) in the immediate vicinity of the Hellenistic-period Jewish settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert, the modern West Bank. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon. ( Professor W. F. Albright, America's…

The Dead Sea Scrolls is a large collection of manuscripts that were first discovered in 1947 and were continually being discovered until 1956. The scrolls were located in eleven caves near Qumran and the Dead Sea along the northwest shore. It is one of the greatest finds of the twentieth century for not only the religious community, but scholars and archeologists. This discovery enabled scholars to interpret and compare the findings in the scrolls to that of the Bible. It also gives us insight…

The Dead Sea Scrolls: Real or Fake? Would you read a counterfeit bible? “A few of these fragments have been proven real, and a few have been proven fake,” Lawerence Schiffman, professor of Hebrew Judaic Studies. Many people believe when the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered they were forged. The Dead Sea Scrolls include fragments from every book of the Old Testament, but many people say some of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be unreal. Specifically, this ancient collection of text, The Dead…

known as the Dead Sea Scrolls have been called by scholars “the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times.” They include books of the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) and non-biblical texts dating from 100 BC to AD 68. They are not original manuscripts but copies made by scribes. They are a thousand years older than the oldest known traditional Hebrew text of the Torah, which is the basis of the English translation of the Old Testament.  The first scrolls were found in…

In 1947, a young shepherd of the Ta’amireh tribe was looking for a lost sheep when he came upon a cave in Qumran near the Dead Sea. What he would find inside of this cave would change the way scholars look at Judaism and early Christianity forever. An unusual finding, he saw clay jars containing old scrolls inside of the cave. The shepherd did not know the true value of these scrolls until much later, but he gathered the seven scrolls up and sold them to antiques dealers in Bethlehem. This…

articles revolving around such disaster. Such as, linking the upcoming apocalypse to the Dead Sea Scrolls. But what do we really know about the Dead Sea Scrolls? Were they written to prophesy future events of catastrophes and death? Or are they just ancient scrolls that just so happened to be found near the Dead Sea? While researching the history about the…

Alike the Sadducees, historical data on this Jewish sect was vague, incomplete and perhaps thought to be destroyed until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is from the Dead Sea Scrolls that their existence was made available. The Essenes were a semi-monastic and separatist community, and they would have been the recorders and preservers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Essenes lived ascetic lives. They denied themselves the pleasures and luxuries of the world system. They lived alone in…

The dead sea scrolls are a collection of 230 ancient religious writing from 2000 years ago found in caves around the dead sea. These scrolls were discovered in 1946-1956 and are mostly written in Hebrew with some in Greek and Aramaic. The Dead Sea Scrolls are written mainly on parchment however some are written on papyrus and one is even written on copper. These biblical scrolls contain very similar content to what is in the Bible today and are the most original copies of the current bible.…