I was wandering what the dead sea scrolls talk about and does it have anything to do with the bible? Also who wrote them?
2007-04-11 15:56:30 · 5 answers · asked by Sara A 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Dead Sea Scrolls contain all books of the Old Testament, except Esther, and have been dated to before the time of Christ.
Sources for the Dead Sea Scrolls:
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/index.html
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html
To learn how the books of the bible came to be assembled as such see: http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/bible/canons.stm
Many versions of the bible existed before the King James and the advent of mass printing.
See: http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/
2007-04-11 16:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by Ask Mr. Religion 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the Old Testament of the Holy Bible
2007-04-11 15:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The dead sea scrolls also contained ancient jewsh mysticism regarding the names of God, the source of good and evil, twin souls, the moon and stars and other cycles of the earth......read the kaballah- that is jewish mysticism.
2007-04-11 16:56:17 · answer #3 · answered by Kaybee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the Old Testament except Esther and Nehemiah.
A variety of texts about various sects of Judaism.
Major writings that are not part of the Jewish canon.
2007-04-11 16:10:27 · answer #4 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are mostly copies of the Old testement
2007-04-11 15:59:48 · answer #5 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋