What do the Dead Sea Scrolls say?

Answer 1

Dead Sea Scrolls: What are They?
The Dead Sea Scrolls have been called the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times. They were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. This is an arid region 13 miles east of Jerusalem and 1,300 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea Scrolls are comprised of the remains of approximately 825 to 870 separate scrolls, represented by tens of thousands of fragments. The texts are most commonly made of animal skins, but also papyrus and one of copper. They are written with a carbon-based ink, from right to left, using no punctuation except for an occasional paragraph indentation.

Dead Sea Scrolls: Why are they Important?
The Dead Sea Scrolls can be divided into two categories—biblical and non-biblical. Fragments of every book of the Old Testament (Hebrew canon) have been discovered, except for the book of Esther. Now identified among the scrolls are 19 fragments of Isaiah, 25 fragments of Deuteronomy and 30 fragments of the Psalms. The virtually intact Isaiah Scroll, which contains some of the most dramatic Messianic prophecy, is 1,000 years older than any previously known copy of Isaiah.

Dead Sea Scrolls: Dramatic Evidence for the Reliability of Messianic Prophecy
The Dead Sea Scrolls comprise the oldest group of Old Testament manuscripts ever found, dating back to 100--200 B.C. This is dramatic, because we now have absolute evidence that Messianic prophecies contained in today’s Old Testament (both Jewish and Christian) are the same Messianic prophecies that existed prior to the time Jesus walked on this earth. It goes without saying, manuscript reliability and textual criticism have taken cosmic steps forward! Check it out – There is no question that Jesus Christ was the Messiah that the Jews were waiting for!

Answer 2

Grab a copy of the book called "The Christ Files" by Australian Author John Dickson.
The book is a pure academic look at How Historians Know what they know about Jesus.
The following extract is from the book, P76 reads;

Between 1947 and 1956 eleven caves in the region around the dead Sea were searched and found to house other ancient texts. In all, about 800 different documents were discovered, making these Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) the greatest literary discovery of the 20th Century.

The book goes on to explain how they were used to develop the 66 books of the Bible we know it today.

Answer 3

The Dead Sea Scrolls:

According to carbon dating, textual analysis, and handwriting analysis the documents were written at various times between the middle of the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD. At least one document has a carbon date range of 21 BC–61 AD. The Nash Papyrus from Egypt, containing a copy of the Ten Commandments, is the only other Hebrew document of comparable antiquity. Similar written materials have been recovered from nearby sites, including the fortress of Masada. While some of the scrolls were written on papyrus, a good portion were written on a brownish animal hide that appears to be gevil. The scrolls were written with feathers from a bird and the ink used was made from carbon black and white pigments. One scroll, appropriately named the Copper Scroll, consisted of thin copper sheets that were incised with text and then joined together. [citation needed]

Vatican conspiracy theory
Allegations that the Vatican suppressed the publication of the scrolls were published in the 1990s. Notably, Michael Baigent's and Richard Leigh's book The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception claim that several key scrolls were deliberately kept under wraps for decades to suppress unwelcome theories about the early history of Christianity; in particular, Eisenman's speculation that the life of Jesus was deliberately mythicized by Paul, possibly a Roman agent who faked his "conversion" from Saul in order to undermine the influence of anti-Roman messianic cults in the region. Upon publication of most of the Dead Sea Scrolls, many of these concerns have been resolved. However, there are still large portions of the scrolls which have not been allowed outside Jordan, or have been allowed only for rare displays or research at the Brigham Young University museum (and later in other musea worldwide), due to their "sensitive nature."

Answer 4

. The Dead Sea Scrolls have confirmed the value of both the Septuagint and the Samaritan Pentateuch for textual comparison. They provide an additional source for Bible translators to consider for possible emendations to the Masoretic text. In a number of cases, they confirm decisions by the New World Bible Translation Committee to restore Jehovah’s name to places where it had been removed from the Masoretic text.

The scrolls describing the rules and beliefs of the Qumran sect make very clear that there was not just one form of Judaism in the time of Jesus. The Qumran sect had traditions different from those of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. These differences likely led to the sect’s retreating to the wilderness. They incorrectly saw in themselves a fulfillment of Isaiah 40:3 about a voice in the wilderness making the way of Jehovah straight. A number of the scroll fragments refer to the Messiah, whose coming the authors saw as imminent. This is of particular interest because of Luke’s comment that “the people were in expectation” of the Messiah’s coming.—Luke 3:15.

The Dead Sea Scrolls help us to a degree to understand the context of Jewish life during the time that Jesus preached. They provide comparative information for the study of ancient Hebrew and the Bible text. But the text of many of the Dead Sea Scrolls still needs closer analysis. Therefore, new insights may yet be gained. Yes, the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century continues to excite both scholars and Bible students as we move along in the 21st century.

Answer 5

Google "Dead Sea Scrolls".

Answer 6

The name Jesus never appears in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Answer 7

The Scrolls contain the message of the Essenes, a Judaic community which preserved the ideas they absorbed from Gnosticism and from Persian Zoroastrianism. If today's Christians are honest they will admit that a lot of what they adhere to is not original or suddenly miraculously revealed in Jesus' time but was current in earlier centuries. Christianity is in fact just the latest manifestation of a series of very ancient religous viewpoints, all of which had a lot a features in common. The Dead Sea Scrolls are just one more piece of evidence for the recognition that Christianity is part of a spectrum of thought extending back over many centuries, and making Y'Shua ben Y'Sef bar N'zret its poster boy does not make it unique or original. Y'Shua is really just the latest incarnation of Osiris of Egypt, the original mediator, the man who was God as well as man, and redeemer of mankind, thousands of years BC, and his mother Isis is the model for the Virgin Mary.

Answer 8

Good luck, getting an answer from Yahoo ANSWER! People around here seems not to be ****. Go to the source, the Dead Sea Scrolls; I mean the LIBRARY.

Answer 9

The Dead Sea material has had a stabilizing effect upon New Testament criticism. It provides evidence to support and show the authenticity of many parts of the Bible.

Answer 10

The dead sea scrools are the originial transcripts its what your reading in the bible
they found them amnd copied them into books called bibles..
so you want to know read the bible and youll be reading wht the dead sea scrolls say.