As I understand it today's Bible is taken from extracts of the Dead Sea Scrolls it is not the complete works. Who decided which bits went in and which bits stayed out and what were their credentials for doing so?
2006-10-20 04:56:07 · 26 answers · asked by bigsmall 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know that one person who helped to decode the scrolls was Robert H. Johnston, he was an archaeologist and also a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology..He developed a way to read ancient texts which had faded with time..He also decoded 10th century Greek prayer books.
Here is a good site to look at on who decided on what was included in the bible and why: http://www.whyibelieve.org/Apologetics/Bible/Canon.htm
2006-10-20 05:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dead sea scrolls are a more resent discovery. The Bible was already well established with the Church. The great controversy over the dead sea scrolls is over whether they are accurate accurate or not though they do come from more accent text that the original King James Version. The Bible the Dead Sea Scrolls was translated to is what we now know as the NIV or New Revised Version. There are many NIVs including one called the The New King James Version (No relation to the original KJV).
The NIV version was made to mirror the KJV when it was written so that there would be more acceptance of the controversial books. The original Bible went through Hell to get to where it is today and there is not enough space here to deal with it.
You can get all this info off the web by typing keyword searches like bible,kiv,or niv to get much of this. It is an interesting study and it will take a life time to get to all of it.
Me, I just like to read the Bible for all the really cool stuff that is in it. It really is an instruction manual on life.
2006-10-20 06:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by ĴΩŋ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of Hebrew holy writings that were sealed and buried in a cave.
They are primarily written in Hebrew (a few in Aramaic, or Greek), which is a language which has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years, and therefore required no "Decoding" or translation.
The Old Testament book of Isaiah is one of the scroll/books that was found in the cache.
These scrolls were found in caves between 1947 and 1956, and have been dated as having been written about 100-200 AD
The current "Bible" was selected by the bishops of the Catholic Church in the middle ages. These would be the same bishops who decided that Gallileo needed to be excommunicated because he postulated that the Earth revolves round the Sun.
2006-10-20 05:12:30 · answer #3 · answered by sewmouse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sound confused. The Dead Sea Scrolls were only found in the 1940's. They were studied for years by various scholars, but it wasn't until they were released to the general scholastic community that they were finally decoded. It was a LOT of work.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are significant because they authenticate our modern translations of what they carry. Obviously, if they are the same now as they were 2000 years ago, the Bible has NOT been changed by mere men as atheists love to claim.
2006-10-20 05:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You understand wrong. The Bible was not written directly from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some parts of the Bible are there, but not everything there is in the Bible.
2006-10-20 04:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You understand wrong. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in the last 60 years, or so, and the Bible as we know it has been around for thousands of years.
What some of the DSCs did was confirm that the text of known books of the bible has been copied faithfully and without error for at least 2200 years.
In addition, many of the scrolls contain writings that are not included in the bible, apogrypha or pseudogrypha.
2006-10-20 05:00:42 · answer #6 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe the Bible was around a long time before the Dead Sea scrolls. Part of the Bible was around during the Time of Jesus.
2006-10-20 04:58:27 · answer #7 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You do not understand it properly, the dead sea scrolls were found in the 20th century, the Bible as we know it has been around for much longer than that. The dead sea scrolls only confirmed what we already had in the Bible.
2006-10-20 04:58:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bible was already there. The dead sea scrolls just contained some of the books
2006-10-20 04:57:20 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The bible isn't decoded my friend its translated. While the dead sea scrolls are some of the oldest biblical records, they only go to prove that the bible has been accurately translated and preserved down to our day. For a book that claims to be from God, and has come under sustained criticism and persecution for centuries, it makes a bold stand for its claim.
2006-10-20 05:00:14 · answer #10 · answered by NDK 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋