2006-06-09 06:37:51 · 14 answers · asked by nitropatch1 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Dead Sea scrolls comprise roughly 825-870 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they are practically the only known surviving Biblical documents written before AD 100.
In other words, the answer to your question is "no."
I hope that helped!
2006-06-09 06:39:41 · answer #1 · answered by Cando 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is nothing related to Jesus or Christianity in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain fragments of several variations of a few books of the Old Testament and fragments of some books not included in the bible at all.
2006-06-09 13:43:13 · answer #2 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were no Christian texts in the Qumran scrolls (Dead Sea Scrolls.) Most of the scrolls are older than Christianity, belonging to the Essene movement that may have given rise to John the Baptist. In the scrolls were a number of old testament texts, and a large number of writings that are not part of the old testament.
2006-06-09 13:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dead sea scrolls did not contain *any* christian bible text.
They contained copies of the hebrew OLD testament, but not all of it...and they contained a fair amount of material that is NOT in the old testament.
2006-06-09 13:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it contained the Hebrew bible text. No New Testament texts were part of it.
2006-06-09 13:41:57 · answer #5 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. The ESSENES were non-christians.
The Essenes (es'-eenz) were followers of a religious way of living in Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. Many scholars today argue that there were a number of separate but related groups that had in common mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs that were referred to as the "Essenes". There are also contemporary movements which identify themselves as Essenes.
2006-06-09 13:40:55 · answer #6 · answered by digilook 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not from the "Christian bible", it was from the Jewish Torah. Remember, Christians took a bit of things from every religion (including Islam, Judaism, and Paganism) then fused it altogether to make their own religion.
2006-06-09 14:02:44 · answer #7 · answered by The Yiddish 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the dead sea scrolls contained jewish scripture not christian scripture.
2006-06-09 13:51:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They contain many other texts not previously known.
2006-06-09 13:40:34 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the also contain other useless aramaic text about the sex life of common household bugs.
2006-06-09 13:41:19 · answer #10 · answered by seiwoot 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋