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Research Paper On Dead Sea Scrolls
One of the most interesting and important finds in biblical history would be the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scroll were found by young Bedouin goat herders in January of 1947. While searching for stray goats along the cliff caves of the Dead Sea the Bedouin herders stumbled upon one of the caves. In this cave they found pottery jars with the first seven manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The discovery of these manuscripts are thousands of years older than the oldest version of the Hebrew texts of the bible. They are believed to be written by the Essenes during the period from about 200 B.C to 68 A.D. Between 1947 and 1956 ten more caves were found to have manuscript of the bible in them, for a total of eleven
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