Are the Dead Sea Scrolls missing books of the bible and are there others by name?

Answer 1

Some books that are not found in the canonical Old Testament yet are represented in the Dead Sea scrolls are the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Testament of Levi, and the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness. There are others, and some scrolls are still unidentified.

Other books from the OT that we know of but don't exist anymore (though they are mentioned in the bible) are the book of Jashur, the Book fo the Covenant, the Annals of Solomon, amongst many others.

As far as the New Testament goes, there are several non-canonical texts, many belonging to the Nag Hammadi texts, such as the Testament of John, the Apocalypse of Peter, the Gospel of Thomas, the Infancy Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, and much, much more. A good resource on these books is Robert M. Price's The Pre-Nicene New Testament, which is a translation of 54 texts that are both canonical and non-canonical.

Answer 2

While the Gary was best on dead sea scrolls, I can give you the conspiracy theory (but it's not really so much a theory as history) on the Bible.

Right, so I'll start by completely ignoring the whole story on how the scripures were changed.

Let's start in the Vatican. A committe of big-shot priest-people are sitting around and in front of them are quite a few scrolls. They start reading the scrolls.

" Hmm... This is a good manuscript." He puts it in the "Go Into Bible" pile.

"Ah! This is heretical!" He should have put it in the recycling bin, but instead puts it in the trash.

"Oy! This is not the way we want God portrayed!" Once again, the trash.

In the end, there are many many books left out of the complete bible. Then there are books left out of the Protestant bible. For instance, there are the Gospels of: Thomas, Mary, Judas.

Answer 3

I have provided a link to a page that lists several missing books, listed in the scriptures. With all of the references to allow further study. At least a dozen are listed.

As for the Dead sea scrolls, they quote much from the bible, but offer little new information.
In the King James version of the Bible the translation was completed by many men, they could not all agree on the meaning of some words in English, those words are italicized in the bible.

I have been told the Vatican (by a Catholic who studied in the Vatican years ago and has seen them), has many records that could be used as additional scripture, but they have chosen to keep them with few people actually getting to read and study them.

Answer 4

The Dead Sea Scrolls have been Jewish, side of the writings of the Essene Jews. None of the books you recounted have been integrated within the Dead Sea Scrolls. You're speakme approximately the Nag Hammadi Library, sometimes called the "Gnostic Gospels". The purpose they are now not within the canon? Because they are Gnostic, which was once viewed a heresy through the Church.

Answer 5

If the Dead Sea Scrolls are missing books of theBible currently;I do not know. However, they do contain books (in the Catholic Bible) such as Tobit, and a few others. (I would elaborate but I do not presently have the updated Dead Sea Scroll info in front of me).

To God's glory, may you receive a pleasant surprise today for asking!!!

Answer 6

The Dead Sea Scrolls are for the most part copies of the books of the Old Testament.

Answer 7

The Dead Sea Scrolls contain a number of books of the Old Testament as well as a number of other writings. They provide good evidence that the Old Testament as we have it today was not corrupted, because in the span of 1,000 years between their writing and discovery, the Biblical books they contain were virtually unchanged.

This says a lot for the integrity of the scribes, both Jewish and Christian, and is a good reason to believe they were equally careful with all the books that are not in the scrolls. After all, they didn't know which books were in the scrolls and which were not; the most reasonable explanation is that they were careful with all the books of both Testaments, and not that they changed and corrupted them at will.

For more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls

Answer 8

Actually, no body, but the Vatican, knows how many are "missing". The 66 books of the bible were debated, voted on, and chosen at the council of nicea in the 4th century. All the different sects of christ followers brought their writings to this council. The 66 were chosen, and the remainder were confiscated by those in charge. These documents, if they haven't decomposed over time, or been destroyed, are likely stored somewhere in or under the vatican.

There is no way of knowing how many possible documents existed over time. But, chances are there were more not accepted than there were accepted.

Answer 9

yes they are missing books, ordered to be destroyed when the church desided which books suited their version of events, i know there is a book of thomas

the dead sea scrolls where found in the dead sea region, by an arab farmer in th summer of 1947, he found them buried in a jar, hidden know what they were, and even burnt a few to keep warm..

Answer 10

THe Bible is a compilation of pre-existing texts (I think the book of Amos is the oldest), so whether the Scrolls are 'missing' from it is a matter of WHO should decide what 'belongs' in it.