Anyone know what are on the dead sea scrolls locked up in the Vatican?

Question

Does anyone know the nature of the writings that the Vatican will not release to the public? Is it just rumor that some of it is Jesus telling people they don't need to go into an actual church building?

Answer 1

Three types of documents have been found in the caves near Qumran: copies of books of the Hebrew Bible, e.g., Isaiah, of which two almost complete scrolls have been found; copies of books now collected in the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, e.g., Tobit, 1 Enoch, and Jubilees; and documents composed by an ascetic community, e.g., a book of community rules called The Manual of Discipline, an allegorical account of the community called The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness, a group of devotional poems called The Thanksgiving Psalms, a commentary on the Book of Habakkuk, and an extensive work, known as the Temple Scroll, containing ritual law.

Documents from the third group have been identified by some scholars with the Essenes, a Jewish religious sect living an ascetic communal agricultural life in the region between the 2d cent. and 2d cent. It has also been hypothesized that the Qumran scrolls are the secreted library of a community, perhaps Essene, that lived at Qumran, and thus survived the destruction of the settlement in c. 68. Startling parallels in expression and thought between the Qumran materials and the New Testament have led to speculation as to their influence on early Christianity. The Temple Scroll, for instance, revealed a list of rules of conduct resembling standard Christian ethics. Some scholars have tried to establish that Jesus and John the Baptist were influenced by, or members of, a Qumran Essene community, but such interpretations are widely disputed. More recent work by other archaeologists and biblical scholars has questioned the association of the scrolls with the Qumran ruins and the Essenes.

Answer 2

The Gnostic Gospels, if I'm not mistaken, contain some of the Scroll's writings, since there were Gnostic researchers present at the time of their findings. Upon first discovery, these were open to such research, but that, of course was squashed when it rocked the religious dogma right off their podiums...LOL...not to worry, though, the truth will be set free soon, thus setting the congregational masses free of the many fears they have been endowed with by the powers that be....Amen!

I was made aware that some of the contents contain Jesus' own gospels, as well as Mary Magdelene's, and other followers that were not included in the Big Bible...as well as the truer version of the crucifixion & the fact that Jesus did NOT die on the cross, was married, had children, etc. I would highly suggest checking out the Gnostic libraries for the best info on this.

Answer 3

they have allowed some to view them. the dead sea scrolls

Well, between 1947 and 1955 what are known as the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. These old scrolls include copies of books of the Hebrew Scriptures. They date from 100 to 200 years before Jesus was born. One of the scrolls is a copy of the book of Isaiah. Before this was found the oldest copy of the book of Isaiah available in Hebrew was one that had been made nearly 1,000 years after Jesus was born. When these two copies of Isaiah were compared there were only very small differences in them, most of which were small variations in spelling! This means that in more than 1,000 years of copying there had been no real change!


There are more than 1,700 ancient copies of the various portions of the Hebrew Scriptures available. By carefully comparing these many very old copies, even the few mistakes copyists made can be found and corrected. Also, there are thousands of very old copies of the Greek Scriptures, some of which copies date back nearly to the time of Jesus and his apostles. Thus, as Sir Frederic Kenyon said: “The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed.”—The Bible and Archaeology, pages 288, 289.

Answer 4

The Dead Sea "scrolls" are most all in Israel I believe... but some may still be at study sites elswhere... They are not hidden but kept from harm... Some are on disply.

The Roman Catholics do indeed keep much secret. Why? only they know...But not the ones you mention...

For those of The True Christian Faith there are no secrets in any worship service or practice. All Christian services are open to all... except personal family gatherings... A Christians Faith is open to all...

For those of The Christian Faith there is the instruction to gather togeather for fellowship and study of God's Word... But Jesus also said that where two or more of His people are gathered, that is where The Church is. That is The Church of which Jesus The Christ Is The Head.

The RC mandate mass attendance.

Answer 5

Molly, We are instruments. Like pencils in the hands of god. Our hands write the words, but Gods moves the hands. And there is another fact that exist from all times. Manipulation and avarice .. we like to manipulate ... there are things that in the churches (all of them for all religions), allow us to know, according their interest (and this part of life has nothing to see with God, this is a men's fact). What is hidden in Vatican ? ... u don't imagine ... ur mind is short. I'll tell u one example... The Evangelious of Thomas. Completely hidden. In the web you'll find little fragments of it. Read it ... and open ur eyes a little bit more. Another thing, The Vatican is a Political Institution, with Political interest. Not only religion interests.

Answer 6

just so you know most people will plagerize their information(oph_chad) and really have no idea what they meant.the scrolls are supposed to be the original writing of the bible.the reason they don't want people to see them, is that they do not agree with the bible as it was handed down.during all the translating the monks that transcribed the text ,left out the parts that sounded to harsh for the public to hear,such as the fact that you need not go to church to have god in your heart. so they changed it around to make it more user friendly.to what you would read as the bible today.

Answer 7

They discuss his teenage years, dealing with girls and acne and so on. The last part of your question, about a building, there is a passage in the Bible already that says something about get into a closet to pray. Most of what Jesus taught was figurative. He didn't mean a physical closet, just a mental one. So I would surmise that the idea of a church imposing its rules on how to pray or that you need a middle man to talk to God would be abhorrent to Him.

Answer 8

The supposedly have a vast library. But they didn't get the Nag Hammadi Library. The really don't like the Gospel of Thomas because it says that the "Kingdom of the Father is within you".

Answer 9

Yes, but I'm not allowed to tell you, or a scary man with white hair will come and get me.

Answer 10

It's probably just a recipe for bean dip locked up in there.