What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Question

What information did they contain?

Answer 1

Read all about them here.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_sc...

Answer 2

They are fragments of ancient Jewish scrolls containing samples of Jewish Scripture, as well as detailed writings by a long gone sect of Jews known as the Essenes. Some ancient historians actually think both Jesus & John the Baptist were members of the Essenes. One of the scrolls details a prophesy about an upcoming battle between the sons of darkness & the sons of light. Another scroll details the daily activities of the Essenes themselves.

The scrolls were accidently discovered when a Bedoiuine shepherd threw a stone into a cave to chase his goats closer to him. The stone he threw made a shattering sound as it broke one of the pots inside the cave which the scrolls were hidden inside. He heard the sound & went to investigate. Viola!

Answer 3

it verify the content of the scripture of today Holy Bible  

Answer 4

The Dead Sea Scrolls are copies of the Old Testament dating back to about 500 BC. They contains portions of every book of the OT (except for Esther) and a complete copy of Isaiah. They were a very important archaeological find because the Hebrew text contained in them matches exactly the Hebrew OT we have today and from which we get our translations into other languages such as English, Chinese, etc. This gives us 100% assurance that the OT has not been altered as many people claim.

Good question.

Answer 5

The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947 also verify the reliability of the OT manuscripts.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were ancient documents that were hidden in a cave in Israel about 2000 years ago. The scrolls contained many OT books, one of them being Isaiah.

Before the Dead Sea scrolls, the earliest existing manuscript of the OT was dated around 900 A.D. called the Masoretic Text. The Scrolls contained OT documents 1000 years earlier. A comparison between the manuscripts revealed an incredible accuracy of transmission through copying, so much so that critics were silenced.

Answer 6

The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of roughly 1,000 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1979 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea) in the West Bank. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include practically the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 AD, and preserve evidence of considerable diversity of belief and practice within late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus. [1]

Publication of the scrolls has taken many decades, and the delay has been a source of academic controversy. As of 2007 two volumes remain to be completed, with the whole series, Discoveries in the Judean Desert, running to thirty nine volumes in total. Many of the scrolls are now housed in the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.

Answer 7

More ancient fiction found in jars.

Answer 8

The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish manuscripts, most of them written in Hebrew, some in Aramaic, and a few in Greek. Many of these scrolls and fragments are over 2,000 years old, dating to before the birth of Jesus. Among the first scrolls obtained from the Bedouins were seven lengthy manuscripts in various stages of deterioration. As more caves were searched, other scrolls and thousands of scroll fragments were found. Between the years of 1947 and 1956, a total of 11 caves containing scrolls were discovered near Qumran, by the Dead Sea.

When all the scrolls and fragments are sorted out, they account for about 800 manuscripts. About one quarter, or just over 200 manuscripts, are copies of portions of the Hebrew Bible text. Additional manuscripts represent ancient non-Biblical Jewish writings, both Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.

Some of the scrolls that most excited scholars were previously unknown writings. These include interpretations on matters of Jewish law, specific rules for the community of the sect that lived in Qumran, liturgical poems and prayers, as well as eschatological works that reveal views about the fulfillment of Bible prophecy and the last days. There are also unique Bible commentaries, the most ancient antecedents of modern running commentary on Bible texts.

Various methods of dating ancient documents indicate that the scrolls were either copied or composed between the third century B.C.E. and the first century C.E. Some scholars have proposed that the scrolls were hidden in the caves by Jews from Jerusalem before the destruction of the temple in 70 C.E. However, the majority of scholars researching the scrolls find this view out of harmony with the content of the scrolls themselves. Many scrolls reflect views and customs that stood in opposition to the religious authorities in Jerusalem. These scrolls reveal a community that believed that God had rejected the priests and the temple service in Jerusalem and that he viewed their group’s worship in the desert as a kind of substitute temple service. It seems unlikely that Jerusalem’s temple authorities would hide a collection that included such scrolls.

Although there likely was a school of copyists at Qumran, probably many of the scrolls were collected elsewhere and brought there by the believers. In a sense, the Dead Sea Scrolls are an extensive library collection. As with any library, the collection may include a wide range of thought, not all necessarily reflecting the religious viewpoints of its readers. However, those texts that exist in multiple copies more likely reflect the special interests and beliefs of the group.

Answer 9

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in some caves at Qumran; they are parchments that contain writings by a Jewish sect from before the time of Jesus. There is also part of the Jewish bible, the Tanakh.

In two years, the Scrolls will be made public and posted on the internet. This was announced last week and is great news! Up until now, only scholars have had access to all of the material, though in Israel there is a special exhibition where everyone is welcome to go and see the material that is in the possession of Israel.

Answer 10

Ancient texts including parts of the Hebrew Bible, which were identical to modern-day Hebrew text because Hebrews took that sort of thing seriously.

The Dead Sea Scrolls don't include any of the much-edited, much-revised, much-selected New Testament whatsoever.  

Answer 11

It contained information that the practice of Jesus and his followers were believing in One God.