Have the dead sea scrools been deciphered?

Question

Have the dead sea scrools been deciphered?

Answer 1

Scholars have been in the process of deciphering the scrolls for a long time. I mean for decades and decades now. A really interesting book if you can find it is The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, published in 1991. They are professional writers, not professional researchers, but they do a good job and discuss what the scrolls say, the politics behind releasing the translations to the public, and the history of the scrolls. They argue that enough of the scrolls are deciphered for them to make in impact in both history and religion, but that some scholars are working to suppress their contents because the scrolls don't say the "right" things. I am sure that there are more current books available - I have not read those.

Answer 2

Many have been, and you can get books on them. Many are too degraded to be read, and many are being pieced together but work is still being done.

Answer 3

Not yet, to my knowledge. They are in fragments, as you no doubt know.

There has been no enthusiasm with the official christian organizations to translate them to the extent possible.

I heard a rumor that some Mormon, successful in the mail order business offered to pay for a translation but I didn't follow up and don't know if the story had merit.

One scroll was fairly in tact and was sold decades ago to a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church. This is documented.

There were scrolls is a number of caves discovered over some years.

The carbon dating puts them at the time to be valid as claimed. I believe that the reluctance lies in whether they will agree with claims held dear.

There was a quick publishing of some found in the 1st cave in the 50's and a few more in the 60's.

I saw an actual fragment at the British Museum in the 60's.

I haven't kept up; I'm more interested in the response of those involved in the modern church from a human dynamics point of view.

Answer 4

supposedly

Answer 5

it also says this: "coronakidcacher is getting reported"

Answer 6

Quite a few have. And they really stirred it up, because Jesus kisses Mary Magdalene in one, and names her as his successor.

Some are a good read, like the Book of Enoch. Reads like an alien abduction.