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How many years do the Dead Sea Scrolls predate the Masoretic text?
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The earliest Dead Sea scrolls have been dated to 2160 years ago.
The Masoretic text, which means the wording of the Tanakh in the original Hebrew, has always existed, since the giving of the Torah and the prophets. What the Massoretes were doing when they were active (1250 to 1050 years ago) was to ascertain the exact Tanakh text as it had been in ancient times; i.e. the original (to ferret out any copyists' errors that might have crept into individual scrolls). This labor was concluded 1060 years ago, when Aaron Ben Asher of Teveryah (Tiberias) completed the two centuries of that research. His handwritten Tanakh, called the Keter Aram Tzova, was kept for centuries in Aleppo, is still extant today, and was declared perfectly accurate by the Rambam (Maimonides), who himself had come across a Torah scroll from well over a thousand years before his time and compared the two.
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What sort of clothes did they where when the dead sea scrolls where around?
The Dead Sea Scrolls were created during the Masoretic biblical era, so the clothing would have matched your traditional Old Testament dress.
Who has the Dead Sea Scrolls and why do they remain a mystery?
Israel retains the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Shrine of the Book Museum in Jerusalem (except at such times when they are on foreign exhibition). They are not really a mystery since the Hebrew is readily understandable (although old). The mystery concerns the people who had those scrolls and the differences there are between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Masoretic Hebrew Text of today.
Why was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls so important to the Old Testament?
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.
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 many times is Jehovah's name in the dead sea scrolls?
It is hard to say how many times the tetragrammaton (the sacred and unpronounced 4-letter name of God) appears in the scrolls. The dead sea scrolls were once scrolls, but most of them, now, are best described as confetti. The scrolls are a huge jigsaw puzzle, with many missing pieces. As a result, attempting to find the count of any particular word is difficult, at best. Typical fragments that have been reassembled from this confetti are full of holes, with enough text that we can figure out which biblical text it is, and where it seems to be consistent with the Masoretic text, we can use that to fill in the holes. Where the text is apparently different from the Masoretic text, back translation from the Septuigant or the Targums (Greek and Aramaic translations) sometimes matches the holes.
When was The Dead Mac Scrolls created?
The Dead Mac Scrolls was created in 1992.
Where were the dead sea scrolls?
the dead sea scrolls were found in the mountain side caves of the dead sea
How have the Dead Sea Scrolls affected Judaism?
It's not clear that they have affected Judaism in any broad sense, but it is very inspiring to see the calligraphy on these 2000 year old scrolls and discover that most of it is perfectly legible to modern readers of Hebrew. It is also very confirming to see that much of the text is identifiably similar to the masoretic text that is now the accepted text of the Bible. It is not really surprising that there are variant texts preserved among the scrolls, and the fact that some of these match the Septuigant enhances the legitimacy of that ancient text, a text we know was accepted as legitimate by the Rabbis of 2000 years ago, but which differs enough from the Masoretic text to have fallen into a bit of disrepute since. The non-canonical material among the scrolls offers a fascinating window on the world of 2000 years ago, the era that gave birth to rabbinic Judaism. The frustrating thing about the scrolls is that most of them have been reduced to confetti by the ages and reassembling that confetti is a huge jigsaw puzzle.
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
When was The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception created?
The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception was created in 1991.
How did the dead sea scrolls affected Judaism?
They did not. To religious Jews today, they are nothing more than a curiosity, especially in view of the likelihood that the provenance of many or all of the scrolls is linked to the Essenes, a tiny, non-traditional breakaway group. We rely upon the Masorah (Masoretic text), which reflects our national tradition. However, the DSS confirm that the texts of the Tanach (Jewish Bible) used today have not been altered in over 2000 years.
