Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Answer 1

Bad fishermen.

Actually they were thought to be written by the Essenes, a Jewish sect between 150 BC and 70 AD but recently there has been a bunch of disagreement about who wrote them.

There are over 800 different scrolls, mostly in scraps but it is clear that they come from different time periods and are even written in different styles. So I guess the caves where they were found were used as a depository for literary works. Kinda like an old collection of scrolls that someone hid to keep safe.

Answer 2

Sometime in late 1946 or early 1947, Bedouins discovered some ancient leather manuscripts in a cave on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Over the next decade ten more caves in the general area of Wadi Qumran were also found to contain ancient manuscripts. These Hebrew and Aramaic documents, now called the Dead Sea Scrolls, are the literary remains of an ancient Jewish sect that once lived at Qumran. Most scholars now identify this sect with the Essenes. Archeologists have determined that Qumran was inhabited roughly between 130 b.c. and a.d. 68. This means that the Dead Sea Scrolls were being written in the period just before, and perhaps even during, the lifetime of Christ. Naturally, the scrolls add greatly to our knowledge of the “theological climate” of the time. Both biblical and nonbiblical writings are found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Fragments of every book of the Old Testament except Esther have been found at Qumran, including more or less complete copies of Isaiah, Psalms, and an Aramaic text of Job. The importance of these biblical manuscripts is that they are about a thousand years older than the oldest previously known manuscripts of the Old Testament. Because the biblical manuscripts among the scrolls show relatively little change from the Old Testament that has come down to us, the Dead Sea Scrolls confirm the basic reliability of the Old Testament as we know it, at least as far back as the beginning of the Christian era.

Answer 3

They were written by different people at different times. The Essenes at Qumran kept them, but did not author them. About 850 scrolls have been found to date. One, for example, is the oldest copy found to date of the Book of Isaiah, and it's 1,000 years older than any other.

Answer 4

I don't know who "copied" them into what are known as the Dead Sea Scrolls... I just know the Essene Jewish Community of Qumran kept them.

Answer 5

An apocalyptic Jewish sect known as the Essenes.

Answer 6

A Jewish sect known as the Essenes.

Answer 7

They were copies of the Bible copied by the Essenes.

Answer 8

Lots of different people

Answer 9

A bunch of Jewish rigorists.

Answer 10

the assenes