Dead Sea Scrolls - real/fake/censured?

Question

I am readin a study on the dead sea scrolls, by two amercans. Not gotten far yet, but it seems there is a lot more behind the famous dead sea scrolls than the world knows... if it shows that things in the bible arent true, what is the result for those following the bible as the one true source ????

Answer 1

Among the public, confusion and misinformation abound. Rumors have circulated about a massive cover-up, prompted by fear that the scrolls reveal facts that would undermine the faith of Christians and Jews alike.

What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish manuscripts, most of them written in Hebrew, some in Aramaic, and a few in Greek. Many of these scrolls and fragments are over 2,000 years old, dating to before the birth of Jesus. Among the first scrolls obtained from the Bedouins were seven lengthy manuscripts in various stages of deterioration. As more caves were searched, other scrolls and thousands of scroll fragments were found. Between the years of 1947 and 1956, a total of 11 caves containing scrolls were discovered near Qumran, by the Dead Sea.

When all the scrolls and fragments are sorted out, they account for about 800 manuscripts. About one quarter, or just over 200 manuscripts, are copies of portions of the Hebrew Bible text. Additional manuscripts represent ancient non-Biblical Jewish writings, both Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.

Some of the scrolls that most excited scholars were previously unknown writings. These include interpretations on matters of Jewish law, specific rules for the community of the sect that lived in Qumran, liturgical poems and prayers, as well as eschatological works that reveal views about the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the last days. There are also unique Bible commentaries, the most ancient antecedents of modern running commentary on Bible texts.

Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Various methods of dating ancient documents indicate that the scrolls were either copied or composed between the third century B.C.E. and the first century C.E. Some scholars have proposed that the scrolls were hidden in the caves by Jews from Jerusalem before the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E. However, the majority of scholars researching the scrolls find this view out of harmony with the content of the scrolls themselves. Many scrolls reflect views and customs that stood in opposition to the religious authorities in Jerusalem. These scrolls reveal a community that believed that God had rejected the priests and the temple service in Jerusalem and that he viewed their group’s worship in the desert as a kind of substitute temple service. It seems unlikely that Jerusalem’s temple authorities would hide a collection that included such scrolls.

Although there likely was a school of copyists at Qumran, probably many of the scrolls were collected elsewhere and brought there by the believers. In a sense, the Dead Sea Scrolls are an extensive library collection. As with any library, the collection may include a wide range of thought, not all necessarily reflecting the religious viewpoints of its readers. However, those texts that exist in multiple copies more likely reflect the special interests and beliefs of the group.

A real breakthrough came unexpectedly in 1991. First, A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls was published. This was put together with computer assistance based on a copy of the team’s concordance. Next, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, announced that they would make available for any scholar their complete set of photographs of the scrolls. Before long, with the publication of A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, photographs of the previously unpublished scrolls became easily accessible.

So for the last decade, all the Dead Sea Scrolls have been available for examination. The research reveals that there was no cover-up; there were no hidden scrolls

Answer 2

Dead Sea Scrolls Fake

Answer 3

The Dead Sea Scrolls are from the Old Testament. The Old Testament books were written hundreds and thousands of years before Christ was born (40 different authors). There were 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments.

The best example from the Dead Sea Scrolls is the book of Isaiah which was written 800 years before Jesus was born yet it was absolutely correct in its prophecy of Jesus -- Isaiah chapter 53 in particular.

Jesus even quoted from Isaiah.

The Dead Sea Scrolls have given Christians and Jews alike great confidence in the versions of the Old Testaments we have been using for years -- just another example that we can be confident in the Bible.

Answer 4

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found by a Bedouin shepherd in a cave at Qumran, in Israel, in 1947. They were dated about 1-3 centuries before Christ. The books and fragments that were discovered were from accepted Old Testament books such as Isaiah, and also books that were not accepted into Old Testament canon. If there are books and/or fragments that do not agree with Scripture, it's your choice whether or not to accept them as true. For Jews and Christians, they are meaningless.

Answer 5

This is the age of knowledge and questioning what previous generations were too afraid to, ie asking is the church hiding things? And such questions. One day the truth will come out and so many christians will have their whole lives rocked. Look how much has come out in the past few decades and people are accessing and wanting to know more, Mary Magdelene being Jesus' wife, the fact that it was Emperor Constantine and his cohorts that decided Jesus was divine and not a prophet. Keep asking questions as that is the only way the truth will come out. The vatican can not hide it's knowlegde forever. I just hope I live to see the day. The dead sea scrolls are so interesting so I wish you the best of luck!

Answer 6

You seem to be rather ill informed and presumptuous, Blind; in keeping with your nick.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a few more Testaments. They range from different ages of the Old and New Testaments. They do not refute the Bible in any way, but add to the information.

Please understand that [a] the spelling of "censored" is not censured; [b] "it" and "arent" are improper numerical agreement and [c] the sentence construction there is very faulty.

Finally, may I say, as a Christian, that it makes no difference to me.

Answer 7

The dead are bogus because of the reference to enoch as a "righteous scribe" the five books of moses reveals that people did not know how to read and write with an alphabet before exodus. Hieroglyphics are not a good method of recording history. If the egyptians had access to this technology they would have surely used it over hieroglyphics. Egyptian scribes were the only ones that allowed to draw and they had to have a separate symbol for everything. Ever wondered why the Lord wrote with his own finger? Here are the facts. The word speak and its variants can be found in all 5 books of moses. The word write and its variants can only be found in exodus and deuteronomy. The word read and its variants can be found in numbers, exodus, and deuteronomy. Furthermore the concept of reading and writing with an alpha bet has to be taught. No one can learn to read and write on their own. The Lord taught moses and moses taught joshua and joshua taught the rest. Imagine a child never taught how to read or write with an alpha bet. The concept would never cross his mind even to adulthood.

Answer 8

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 9

The Dead Sea Scrolls include a range of contemporary documents that serve as a window on a turbulent and critical period in the history of Judaism. In addition to the three groups identified by Josephus (Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes), Judaism was further divided into numerous religious sects and political parties. With the destruction of the Temple and the commonwealth in 70 C.E., all that came to an end. Only the Judaism of the Pharisees--Rabbinic Judaism--survived. Reflected in Qumran literature is a Judaism in transition: moving from the religion of Israel as described in the Bible to the Judaism of the rabbis as expounded in the Mishnah (a third-century compilation of Jewish laws and customs which forms the basis of modern Jewish practice).

The Dead Sea Scrolls, which date back to the events described in the New Testament, have added to our understanding of the Jewish background of Christianity. Scholars have pointed to similarities between beliefs and practices outlined in the Qumran literature and those of early Christians. These parallels include comparable rituals of baptism, communal meals, and property. Most interesting is the parallel organizational structures: the sectarians divided themselves into twelve tribes led by twelve chiefs, similar to the structure of the early Church, with twelve apostles who, according to Jesus, would to sit on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Many scholars believe that both the literature of Qumran and the early Christian teachings stem from a common stream within Judaism and do not reflect a direct link between the Qumran community and the early Christians.
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Answer 10

The dead sea scroll were written before the first century. The are mostly copies of old testament books.