Dead Sea Scrolls Found. Vanderkam explores similarities between the dead sea scrolls and the new testament in the march/april 2015 issue of bar.photo: The discovery of the dead sea scrolls was so important because it predated the earliest known texts of the hebrew bible by about a thousand years.
Until the dead sea scrolls were found in 1947, the oldest hebrew text of the old testament was the masoretic aleppo codex which dates to a.d. According to jan gunneweg of hebrew university in jerusalem, like dna, no clay on earth has the exact chemical composition so the specific area in which pottery was made can be. Study of the scrolls has enabled scholars to push back the date of a stabilized hebrew bible to no later than 70 ce, to.
Here's How The Dead Sea Scrolls Were Discovered
The ancient library of qumran and modern scholarship brings before the american people a selection from the scrolls which have been the subject of intense public interest. Bedouin treasure hunters and archaeologists ultimately found the remains of hundreds of ancient scrolls. In recent years, many shocking accounts of what was contained in the dead sea scrolls have been reported. Where were the dead sea scrolls found?
