What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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I hear about them all the time, but I don’t even know what they are! And why are they housed in a place called the “Shrine of the Holy Book”? They aren’t the Torah or the Gospels, so why do they recieve the respect to be referred to as a Holy Book?
 
I just saw the Scrolls as they are in our city until January.
Regarded by many as one of the greatest archeological discoveries of the 20th century, these scrolls predate Christianity. Until their discovery, the oldest Hebrew biblical manuscript known to scholars was written in 895 C.E.* The biblical Dead Sea scrolls are more than 1,000 years older, having been transcribed or copied between 250 B.C.E. and 68 C.E., written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
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They are not the entire scrolls, but rather pieces of them. However, there were so many discovered that they have been able to piece together either fragments or entire manuscripts to coincide with every book of the Old Tesament except for the book of Esther.
Here is a link:
pacificsciencecenter.org/dss/about.html
 
You might want to get Vake2 here to tell you the Jewish perspective.🙂
 
I’ve read through most of the Dead Sea Scrolls (in English translation) before. A lot of the material is highly fascinating since it appears to have been written by people (or a group of people, most likely the Essenes) concerned with the end of times. Most of the documents are written in the style of the OT prophets. The one fragment which scholars are highly interested in is called “The War Rule” which is a six line fragment concerning either a “Piercing Messiah” or a “Pierced Messiah”

Read more here.

Due to the prophetic nature of these books, as in the above instance, many people and scholars regard them as just as authoritative as any other prophetic book; however, since they were only first discovered in the mid-20th century, their value is secondary to what is already contained in Biblical canon.
 
The Dead Sea Scrolls came to Houston a little over a year ago, and I was fortunate enough to see the exhibit. The most astonishing, most wonderful lesson I learned from the exhibit is that the book of Isaiah is practically word for word exactly what we have in our Bible. The scrolls were hidden before the time of Jesus. It’s a testament to the truth contained therein that the word of God, even through all the wars and all the tumult of the times remained uncorrupt over so many centuries, and so many translations. It was the book of Isaiah that they had the most intact copies. If I’m not mistaken, I believe it is also the book of Isaiah wherein the prophesy of Christ’s coming is the most apparent (someone correct me please if I’m wrong about that). Another very interesting fact about the scrolls is the timing of their being found. It was either immediately before or immediately after the establishment of Israel as a sovereign nation. That may be just a beautiful coincidence.
 
Is there any where I could see if there is some sort of nationwide tour the scrolls are on, that maybe will come near my house?
 
awalt said:
Is there any where I could see if there is some sort of nationwide tour the scrolls are on, that maybe will come near my house?
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These are the two most authortitative sites on the scrolls, but I’m not able to find any traveling exhibit information in them yet. If I do find something, I’ll post back here.

imj.org.il/

antiquities.org.il/
 
There is a current exhibit in Seattle at the Seattle science and educational museum:

pacsci.org/dss/

This exhibit runs till January 7, 2007.

There will be an exhibit at San Diego’s Museum of Natural History July 1 to December 31, 2007. Usually the scrolls are only exhibited for three months, but this is a six month exhibit.
 
ValiantDomain said:
I’ve read through most of the Dead Sea Scrolls (in English translation) before. A lot of the material is highly fascinating since it appears to have been written by people (or a group of people, most likely the Essenes) concerned with the end of times. Most of the documents are written in the style of the OT prophets. The one fragment which scholars are highly interested in is called “The War Rule” which is a six line fragment concerning either a “Piercing Messiah” or a “Pierced Messiah”

Read more here.

Due to the prophetic nature of these books, as in the above instance, many people and scholars regard them as just as authoritative as any other prophetic book; however, since they were only first discovered in the mid-20th century, their value is secondary to what is already contained in Biblical canon.
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WOW! That is almost enough to make someone weep! Oh my gosh, I can’t fathom how this is…wow. How could anyone doubt the Christ after reading this?
 
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