Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by teenage shepherds who were treating to their goats and sheep near the settlement of Qumran, located on the shore of the Dead Sea. One of the teenagers was throwing rocks into the sea and suddenly he heard a glass break so then he and the other shepherds join him and they go into the cave and they found numerous amounts of large jars containing the scrolls.
The Scrolls are thought to have been written by a group of people called the Essenes, which are people who abandoned Jerusalem who thought of themselves as the chosen ones. They were known for interpreting scriptures
Many languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek were written on the scrolls. Most the scrolls were found in caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea from 1947 to 1956, the most known being the eleven caves near Qumran, were scholars believed it was a community of Essene, a Jewish movement known to have been elsewhere in Israel during the time of Jesus.
Two of the caves have produced relatively nice manuscripts, which are 1 and 11 and in 1952 cave 4 discovered one of the largest finds retrieving 15,000 fragments from over 500 manuscripts. Scholars have found the remains of about 825 separate scrolls in all. The Dead Sea scrolls can be divided into two categories biblical and non-biblical. Parts of every book have been found except the book of Esther.
It is said that the Jews hid the scrolls in the caves because they were protecting them from the invading Roman army. When they were invaded by the Romans the scrolls were safe and untouched because of the Jews great thinking and after two thousand years the scrolls were found by a young shepherd and they were preserved because of the clay jars they were put in.
Recently 19 copies of the Book of Isaiah, 25 copies of Deuteronomy and 30 copies of the Psalms were identified by scholars. The discovery of the scrolls has added to our learning of the varieties of Judaism during the time of Jesus and the
The Scrolls are thought to have been written by a group of people called the Essenes, which are people who abandoned Jerusalem who thought of themselves as the chosen ones. They were known for interpreting scriptures
Many languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek were written on the scrolls. Most the scrolls were found in caves along the western shore of the Dead Sea from 1947 to 1956, the most known being the eleven caves near Qumran, were scholars believed it was a community of Essene, a Jewish movement known to have been elsewhere in Israel during the time of Jesus.
Two of the caves have produced relatively nice manuscripts, which are 1 and 11 and in 1952 cave 4 discovered one of the largest finds retrieving 15,000 fragments from over 500 manuscripts. Scholars have found the remains of about 825 separate scrolls in all. The Dead Sea scrolls can be divided into two categories biblical and non-biblical. Parts of every book have been found except the book of Esther.
It is said that the Jews hid the scrolls in the caves because they were protecting them from the invading Roman army. When they were invaded by the Romans the scrolls were safe and untouched because of the Jews great thinking and after two thousand years the scrolls were found by a young shepherd and they were preserved because of the clay jars they were put in.
Recently 19 copies of the Book of Isaiah, 25 copies of Deuteronomy and 30 copies of the Psalms were identified by scholars. The discovery of the scrolls has added to our learning of the varieties of Judaism during the time of Jesus and the