why is dead sea scroll so important??
2007-03-23 10:48:30 · 7 answers · asked by taku 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
because they are actual historic scriptures from before when the Nicean council in 325 CE altered the scriptures into what we have as the bible today.
2007-03-24 00:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by Rev. Two Bears 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://www.gnosis.org/library/dss/dss.htm
What are popularly called The Dead Sea Scrolls End view of one of the larger scroll fragments from the Dead Sea collectionconsist of a very large number of scrolls – most poorly preserved and many surviving only as tiny scraps – discovered in a series of eleven caves near Qumran and the Dead Sea beginning around 1947. Over 800 separate texts of several divergent types are now recognized among this find. The scrolls date from the "intertestamental period" – a period ranging from about 250 BCE to 100 CE, the epoch after textual formation of the "Old Testament" but still before the formation of Christianity and rabbinical Judaism.
dose that help to answer the ?
2007-03-23 12:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by drakelungx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They ascertain the inspiration for the two Christianity and Judaism. commonly Jewish connotations. however the exciting element is the adjustments in variety and language and extra importantly content fabric of the scrolls. whilst in truth an identical information. Interpretation from different time classes are each so often dramatically different. So the scrolls coach that the Biblical interpretations at the instant are not "carved in stone" yet have been a becoming and changing set of information inspired with the help of extremely some situations and cultures.
2016-10-20 07:36:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They validate some things written in various versions of the Bibles, and contradict others. Were they to be taken up and used as a ruler to correct the Bibles used by the multiplicity of sects all Bibles would have to be thrown away and a new edition published.
I have journals and books on the subject and translations.
2007-03-23 11:10:09 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are some of the oldest versions yet found of biblical manuscripts, hence are least likely to have been corrupted by copying errors.
2007-03-23 10:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are old biblical manuscripts that have helped us correct some of the corruptions in the Bible. They came out in the1930s and helped us correct some corruptions.
2007-03-23 14:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They demonstrate that our modern translations are accurate. Unnaturally accurate.
It's almost as if there was some guiding force protecting them through time and multiple languages so the meanings remain clear...
2007-03-23 11:01:12 · answer #7 · answered by "Ski" 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋