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What makes The Dead Sea Scrolls such a powerful text? Why does it hold such importance and influence in regards to the present? The Dead Sea Scrolls not only gives in depth content to the Bible, but most importantly, the texts give a different perspective and insight into a civilization that thrived in the regions of Qumran before the age of the Christ. In the scrolls, grand aspiration to an ideal utopian empire are clearly and carefully written. The discovery of the scrolls exposed a blue print

Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are a group of 800-900 manuscripts found in caves at Qumran east of Jerusalem and north-west of the Dead Sea. The first scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a shepherd-boy who wandered into a cave after a stray goat. The texts are believed to have been hidden in eleven caves for safe-keeping prior to the destruction of Rome in A.D.70. The scrolls are a collection of biblical and non-biblical documents comprising of the Hebrew Bible, (every book except Esther);

The Dead Sea Scrolls In 1947 in a cave near the Dead sea in the Jordan Desert, a fifteen year old boy chased after one of his goats that wandered off. This boy's name was Muhammad adh-Dhib. While going after his goat, the boy stumbled upon perhaps the greatest religious discovery of the modern era. Inside the cave, he found broken jars that contained scrolls written in a strange language, wrapped in linen cloth and leather. These scrolls would later become known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. This first

The discovery of The Dead Sea Scrolls was the most important archeological discovery in history, and the single most important biblical find ever. The term Dead Sea Scrolls refers to the 850+ documents, most left in fragments from the wear of time, that were discovered in the Judean desert, around Qumran. Two teenage boys one a 15-year-old Bedouin shepherd first discovered the documents. The boys were surprised to hear the sound of breaking pottery upon throwing rocks down a hole they discovered

The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which was initially made in 1947, represents one of the most important archeological discoveries made in the twentieth century. In the caves of the cliffs overhanging the northwestern end of the Dead Sea, in an area now known as Khirbet Qumran, a number of large clay jars containing more than six hundred ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts were discovered by some travelling Bedouins. These manuscripts were attributed

authenticity of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Professor Albright, “There is no doubt in my mind that the script is more archaic than that of the Nash papyrus (a very small portion of the Old Testament dated between the second century b.c. and first century a.d.)… I would prefer a date around 100 b.c.…” Inside the archaeological community and the general public, Albright received critical acclaim. Although, Professor Albright’s most noteworthy work was working with the Dead Sea Scrolls, it was his innovative

the clay canisters laid the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Scrolls are believed to be written between 150 B.C. and 70 A.D (Wise, Abegg, and Cook). Athanasius Yeshue Samuel bought four of the scrolls from the boy who found them. He paid less than a hundred dollars for all four. After failing to sell these historical items to several universities, he placed them in the wall street journal. He claimed the scrolls to be miscellaneous

The Dead Sea Scrolls are 981 documents, mostly in fragments, which were discovered between the years of 1946-1956 in eleven caves at Khirbet Qumran. However, the discovery was by Bedouin Shepherd Muhammed Edh-Dhib who was looking for his lost sheep and threw a stone into a cave and heard the sound of breaking pottery stone into a cave and heard the sound of breaking pottery. Furthermore, to which he entered the cave, he founded pottery jars and scrolls, the first scrolls which were found included

(Dead Sea Scrolls) The finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Qumran Documents is the single most important religious find of the twentieth century. These manuscripts have revolutionized the entire field of biblical study and have the ability to destabilize the mass of western religious thought as we know it today. For the information contained in these scrolls, include books of the Hebrew Bible that predate the next earlier example by one thousand years. The data found in these scrolls enable

RELIGION ASSIGNMENT When Jesus lived, approximately 4 A.D to 33 A.D, Palestine was a country governed by the Romans. During that period many Jewish political groups influenced how society practiced their religion. One of these Jewish political groups were the Essenes. As a result of their differences, the Essenes did not always see eye to eye with the other groups or the Roman state. One of the reasons the Essenes did not see eye to eye with all of society was the difference between their religious