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Was Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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A:The Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden in a series of caves near Qumran in approximately 70 CE and include material written down over a period of around two hundred years, including copies of earlier Hebrew scriptures.

There is no mention of Jesus but there is a mention of a Teacher of Righteousness from the second century BCE, who some have seen as the real Jesus.

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What is the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Christians?

The Dead Sea Scrolls provided the oldest available manuscripts of the Hebrew scriptures written in their original languages, and allowed scholars to check the accuracy of the Masoretic texts used by Judaism, as well as the accuracy of the Septuagint, an early Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. Whenever the Septuagint seemed to favour Christianity, when compared with the Masoretic texts, Christian apologists had accused the Jews of altering their own holy scriptures to disadvantage Christianity. The Dead Sea Scrolls showed that the Masoretic texts were little changed from the scriptures in use early in the first century CE. This proved that most discrepancies between the Septuagint and the Masoretic texts were the result of mistranslations by the authors of the Septuagint.


How was The Bible recorded?

At first the Bible was probably translated through word of mouth. Once the Israelites had a writing system they began writing it on scrolls. Things like Hindu teachings actually predate any Biblical writing, but that just shows that Eastern people began writing things down faster than the Israelites in the middle east. There are pieces of papyrus (a kind of leaf ancient people used to make scrolls) with different sections of the Bible that date back before Jesus time (the most notable is the Dead Sea Scrolls). This is important because it basically proves that the we see the same Old Testament that Jesus did 2000 years ago.


Does the Dead Sea Scroll confirm an established movement called Christianity?

The Dead Sea scrolls were written by a sect of Christianity called the Gnostic's a mystical branch of Christians. This sect died out and is not represented in Christianity today. The best example I can give today would be Christian Scientists. However, to answer your question, Christianity is well established and documented by many historians dating to the 1st century.


What verse in the New Testament mentions the dead sea?

The Dead Sea is not mentioned in the New Testament.


What are the historical books on the Old Testament?

Um, the Old Testament itself is a historical book. It doesn't go much older than the very beginning. We call the scrolls that make up the Old Testament the Red Sea scrolls.

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Where were the dead sea scrolls?

the dead sea scrolls were found in the mountain side caves of the dead sea


What has the author Peter W Flint written?

Peter W. Flint has written: 'The Dead Sea Scrolls' 'Celebrating the Dead Sea Scrolls' -- subject(s): Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran community 'The Dead Sea Psalms scrolls and the Book of Psalms' -- subject(s): Bible, Criticism, Textual, Dead Sea Psalms scrolls, Dead Sea scrolls, Textual Criticism, Versions


What has the author John Marco Allegro written?

John Marco Allegro has written: 'The people of the Dead Sea scrolls' -- subject(s): Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran community 'The Dead Sea scrolls' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Dead Sea scrolls 'Search in the desert' -- subject(s): Antiquities 'The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian myth' -- subject(s): Christianity, Criticism, interpretation, Dead Sea scrolls, Essenes, Gnosticism, Origin, Relation to the New Testament 'The Dead Sea scrolls and the origins of Christianity' -- subject(s): Dead Sea scrolls 'All manner of men' -- subject(s): Race, Physical anthropology 'Mystery of the Dead Sea scrolls revealed' -- subject(s): Dead Sea scrolls


What were in the Dead Sea Scrolls?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 11 cave chambers along the Dead Sea in large jars.


When was The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception created?

The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception was created in 1991.


What was found in caves by the dead sea?

the dead sea scrolls!!


Did the dead sea scrolls predict the coming of jesus?

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of Jewish religious and secular documents, many of them dating back to pre-Christian times. There is no irrefutable reference among the scrolls to Jesus. There are references to cryptic persons such as the "Teacher of Righteousness", but there is no evidence that the Teacher, or any other person mentioned in the scrolls, is meant to be Jesus.Nevertheless, some scholars have sought to find evidence about early Christianity among the scrolls. For example, Robert Eisenman (The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians) sees a possible reference to Jesus in the Damascus Document, and believes "Teacher of Righteousness" may have been James the Just.


Is the Tetragrammaton used in the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Yes. The Tetragrammaton (the four consonants of God's name) are used in the Dead Sea Scrolls.


Who wrote the five scrolls?

If you are talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls, there is no answer that we know of.


3 questions about the Dead Sea?

what is it like? what lives in it? what are the dead sea scrolls?


Who is older dead sea scrolls or King Tutankhamun?

The reign of King Tutankhamun was from 1333 BC to 1324 BC. The Dead Sea scrolls are generally dated between 150 BC and 70 AD. It is the Dead Sea Scrolls they are older.


What did Muhammad do with the Dead Sea Scrolls?

A:The Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden in the first century CE, during the First Roman-Jewish War, and not rediscovered until the twentieth century. Muhammad could not have known of the Dead Sea Scrolls.