How many gospels were found with the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Question

Thanks guys! I actually already knew the answer to this question, but I have just seen so many people talking about all the Gospels found with the Dead Sea Scrolls which is something Dan Brown just made up. The Gnostic gospels were found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, and they weren't scrolls. Rather they were in the form of Codexes, which are an early form of book.

Answer 1

I think that people get the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi collection confused. the Dead sea scrolls were OT but there was another find in 1945 of the Nag Hammadi gospels that Christians refuse to recognize because the are of Christian Gnostic origin which they claim is hersey. See below.

The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This immensely important discovery includes a large number of primary Gnostic scriptures -- texts once thought to have been entirely destroyed during the early Christian struggle to define "orthodoxy" -- scriptures such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth.
Several of the major texts in the Nag Hammadi collection have more than one English translation; where more than one translation is available, we have listed the translators' names in parenthesis below the name of the text. Texts marked with the {*} had more than one version extant within the Nag Hammadi codices; often these several versions were used conjointly by the translators to provide the single translation presented here.

•The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
•Allogenes
•The Apocalypse of Adam
•The (First) Apocalypse of James
•The (Second) Apocalypse of James
•The Apocalypse of Paul
•The Apocalypse of Peter
•The Apocryphon of James:
o(Williams translation)
o(Cameron translation)
•The Apocryphon of John*
•Asclepius 21-29
•Authoritative Teaching
•The Book of Thomas the Contender
•The Concept of Our Great Power
•The Dialogue of the Savior
•The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
•Eugnostos the Blessed*
•The Exegesis on the Soul
•The Gospel of the Egyptians*
•The Gospel of Philip
•The Gospel of Thomas:
o(Patterson & Meyer translation)
o(Lambdin translation)
o(Patterson & Robinson Translation)
o(Grondin interlinear translation)
•The Gospel of Truth:*
o(Grant translation)
o(Attridge & MacRae translation)
•The Hypostasis of the Archons
•Hypsiphrone
•The Interpretation of Knowledge
•The Letter of Peter to Philip
•Marsanes
•Melchizedek
•On the Anointing
•On the Baptism A
•On the Baptism B
•On the Eucharist A
•On the Eucharist B
•On the Origin of the World*
•The Paraphrase of Shem
•Plato, Republic 588A-589B
•The Prayer of the Apostle Paul
•The Prayer of Thanksgiving
•The Second Treatise of the Great Seth
•The Sentences of Sextus
•The Sophia of Jesus Christ
•The Teachings of Silvanus
•The Testimony of Truth
•The Thought of Norea
•The Three Steles of Seth
•The Thunder, Perfect Mind
•The Treatise on the Resurrection
•Trimorphic Protennoia
•The Tripartite Tractate
•A Valentinian Exposition
•Zostrianos

Answer 2

The writings found with the Dead Sea scrolls and in the jars at Nag Hamadi were very numerous. A lot of what was found did not agree with what was decided during the Council of Nicea in the 1400's to be in agreement with acceptable Church doctrine, and that has not changed in all these centuries. It's a matter of what the church feels supports their view of Christ, Christianity, divinity and doctrine--it has nothing to do with what may or may not have been the actual truth of the life of Jesus or his followers. Also, most of those writings were anonymous--no one knows who wrote them or why. The Council did not have these writings when they assembled what we know today as the Bible--nor did they know about them and did not consider their validity or the information they contained--and all church doctrine is based on what they DID know at the time, which was what supported their viewpoint. It is not possible to really know what the relationship between Jesus and Judas actually was, because there are no historical accounts.

Answer 3

All of the books of the Old Testament are represented in the Dead Sea Scroll collection except Esther.

Answer 4

Only one possible New Testament fragment, which you can read further down. All of the other documents found in the Dead Sea scrolls were written before Christ's time on earth.
The scrolls are made up of some forty thousand inscribed fragments. From these fragments more than 500 books have been reconstructed. Many extrabiblical books and fragments were discovered that shed light on the second century BC to first century AD religious community of Qumran on the shores of the Dead Sea. Such writings as the "Zadokite documents," a "Rule of the Community," and the "Manual of Discipline" help us to understand the purpose of daily Qumran life. In the various caves are some very helpful commentaries on the Scriptures. But the most important documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls are copies of the Old Testament text dating from more than a century before the birth of Christ.
here is a list of the discoveries
Dead Sea Scroll Discoveries- Cave 1 was discovered by the Arab shepherd boy. From it he took seven more-or-less complete scrolls and some fragments:
Isaiah A (iQIs a): St . Mark's Monastary Isaiah Scroll is a popular copy wiht n7umerous corrections above the line or in the m argin. It is the earliest known copy of any complete book of the Bible.
Isaiah B : The Hebrew University Isaiah is incompletely, but its text agrees more closely with the Masoretic Text than does Isaiah A
Other Cave 1 Fragments: This cave also yielded fragments of Genesis, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Judges, Samuel, isaiah, Ezekiel, Psalms, and some nonbiblical works including Enoh, Sayings of Moses (previously unknown), Book of Jubilee, Book of Noah, Testament of Levi, Tobit, and the Wisdom of Solomon. An interesting fragment of Daniel, containing 2:4 (where the language changes from Hebrew to Aramaic), also comes from this cave. Fragmentary commentaries on the Psalms, Micah, and Zephaniah were also found in Cave 1
Cave 2: Cave 2 was first discovered and pilfered by the Bedouins. It was excavated in 1952. Fragments of about one hundred manuscripts, including two of Exodus, one of Leviticus, four of Numbers, two or three of Deuteronomy, one of each of Jeremiah, Job, and the Psalms, and two of Ruth were found.
Cave 4: Partridge Cave, or Cave 4, after being ransacked by Bedouins, was searched in September 1952, and proved to be the most productive cave of all. Literally thousands of fragments were recovered by by purchase from the BEdouins or by the archaeologists sifting dust on the floor of the cave. These scraps represent hundreds of manuscripts, nearly four hundred of which have been identified. They include one hundred copies of Bibe books -all of the Old Testament except Esther.
A fragment of Samuel from Cave 4 (4qsam b) is thought to be the oldest known piece of biblical Hebrew. It dates from the third century B.C. also found were a few fragments of commentaries of the Psalms, Isaiah, and Nahum. The entire collection of Cave 4 is believed to represent the scope of the Qumran library, and judging from the relative number of books found, their favorite books seemed to be Deuteronomy, Isaiah, the Psalms, the Minor Prophets, and Jeremiah, in that order. In one fragment containing some of Daniel 7:28 and 8:1, the languages changes from Aramaic to Hebrew.
Caves 7-10: Examined in 1955, produced no significant Old Testament manuscripts. Cave 7 did, however; yield some disputed manuscript fragments that have been identified by Jose O'Callahan as New Testament portions. If so, they would be the oldest New Testament manuscript datint from as early as A.D. 50 or 60.
Cave 11: This cave was well excavated in early 1056. It produced a well-preserved copy of thirty-six Psalms, plsu the apocryphal Psalm 151, previous known only in Greek texts. A very fine scroll of part of Leviticus, some large pieces of an Apocalypse of the new Jerusalem, and an Aramaic targum (paraphrase) of Job were discovered.

I doubt you wanted all this info, but I thought I'd share anyway.
hope this helps

Answer 5

More than the Christians wanted.


Hidden in the archives of the vatican

Answer 6

I agree. I think it's all OT.

Answer 7

None.

It's all OT stuff.

Answer 8

None - it was all OT

Answer 9

none, just a little fecal matter from my butt.