On the Dead Sea Scrolls?...?

Question

does it say in any part of it that Jesus did exist?.. or was that written before Christ... BC?... or am i lost?

Answer 1

"Although the Qumran community existed during the time of the ministry of Jesus, none of the Scrolls refer to Him, nor do they mention any of His follower's described in the New Testament."

Answer 2

The Dead Sea scrolls do not mention Jesus at all. Although some were written around that time.

Jesus did exist as it has been proven through several different religions.
You have Christianity who states that he is the Son of God
You have the Jews who he lived among them and although they acknowledge him, he of course is not the son of God to the Jews
You also have Islam that recognises Mohammed and Jesus as prophets (along with other prophets)
There has been many other historical people writing stories about Jesus (Not as a son of God) but some sort of rebel rising against the Roman Army
However if you are a Christian you will not hear the other stories unless you delve deeper in to the past

So yes Jesus did exist historically. What you want to believe after that is your faith

Answer 3

No the dead sea scrolls contain most the books of the Old Testament with the exception of Ester. Plus the books are mostly fragments so there is no way to compare to the modern version of the Old testament a see if they match up. There are also other books that are apart of the dead sea scrolls but not apart of the OT. Such as the copper texts and the book of war.

Answer 4

The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible - that would be the OLD Testament, completed before Jesus' birth.

Answer 5

The Dead Sea Scrolls contain all the books of the Old Testament except for two. The New Testament is the story of Jesus life and the early church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls

Answer 6

Good question, Fairy:

Those scrolls were written during the preceding centuries before Christ was born.

But hang in there, they used timed prophecies and predicted that the Messiah would come about AD 30, and the sect of Essenes buried their library before AD 70. We know that because they have found some dated Roman coins buried there.

The question on why they abandoned their site is easy. The followers of Jesus were warned to flee Jerusalem after seeing the Abomination of Desolation encompass Jerusalem. That happened by Cestius in AD 66.

No Christians lost their lives when Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70, but millions of Jews were slain or sold as slaves on the slave market.

More on those timed prophecies that prove Jesus is the Messiah in a Bible code. See http://abiblecode.tripod.com

Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua

Answer 7

The Dead Sea scrolls predate Jesus. They are collections of Old Testament writings and other stuff. They are significant for the Old Testament text, but there was lots of other stuff found at the time.

Answer 8

Apparently, the Dead Sea scrolls were only fairly recently discovered,the interesting thing it says is something like..."Look for me under a stone,I am there, look for me in the wind I am there....."it is said to be the words of christ himself who was saying after I am gone don't worship me in an extravagant church".:)

Answer 9

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. The Great Isaiah Scroll has been carbon dated to to a range of 335 BC-107 BC.[1]

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.[2][3][4]


Dead Sea Scroll fragments on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.About 80% to 85% of the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in one of three dialects of Hebrew,[5] Biblical Hebrew (also known as Classical Hebrew), "Dead Sea Scroll Hebrew" (on which see Hoffman 2004 or Qimron 1986), or proto-Tannaitic Hebrew, as in the Copper Scroll and the MMT (or 4QMMT) text. Biblical Hebrew dominates in the Biblical scrolls, and DSS Hebrew in scrolls which some scholars believe were composed at Qumran. Also some scrolls are written in Aramaic and a few in Koine Greek.

Important texts include the Isaiah Scroll (discovered in 1947), a Commentary (Hebrew pesher פשר) on the Book of Habakkuk (1947), the so-called Manual of Discipline (Community Rule) (1QS/4QSa-j), which gives much information on the structure and theology of a sect, and the earliest version of the Damascus Document. The Copper Scroll (1952), which appears to list actual hidden caches of valuables including objects of gold and other metals (thought by some to represent Temple treasures hidden away before the Roman Destruction), as well as scrolls and weapons, has probably excited the greatest attention.

The fragments span at least 800 texts that represent many diverse viewpoints, ranging from beliefs resembling those anciently attributed to the Essenes, to ideas which would appear to represent the tenets of other sects. About 30% are fragments from the Hebrew Bible, from all the books except the Book of Esther and the Book of Nehemiah (Abegg et al 2002). About 25% are traditional Israelite religious texts that are not in the canonical Hebrew Bible, such as the Book of 1 Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, and the Testament of Levi. Another 30% contain Biblical commentaries or other texts such as the Community Rule (1QS/4QSa-j, also known as "Discipline Scroll" or "Manual of Discipline"), The Rule of the Congregation, The Rule of the Blessing and the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness (1QM, also known as the "War Scroll") related to the beliefs, regulations, and membership requirements of a Jewish sect, which some researchers continue to believe lived in the Qumran area. The rest of the fragments (about 15%) remain unidentified.

Answer 10

Most of these texts predate Messiah.
However, there are some in the group that predicted his soon manifestation. The essens were out in the desert for several reasons, but one was anticipation of Messiah's coming and finding them clean of the cultural polutions in their day.