Dead sea scrolls
On the west bank of the Dead Sea there lies a unique arrangement of caves known as the ruins of Khirbet Qumran. This area is one of the lowest parts on earth. The account of the discover are as extraordinary as the scrolls themselves. News of the discovery spread in 1948 from Israeli and American sources. In 1947 young Bedouin shepherds who were searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a long-untouched cave. Inside they found jars filled with ancient scrolls. That discovery produced seven scrolls and began a search that lasted almost 10 years. After this time had passed, thousands of scroll fragments from eleven caves were found. During this time, archaeologists searched for a community living close to the caves, which might help identify the people who left the scrolls. Soon after their discovery, historical, paleographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as carbon-14 dating, established that the scrolls and the Qumran ruin dated from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. They were confirmed to be very ancient! Coming from the late Second Temple Period, which is the time when Jesus of Nazareth lived. Some might say that this find only contributes to hundreds of other scrolls found in the past, also conta . . .
With the introduction of so much new information in recent years about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the similarity between noncanonical texts to those that are in the Christian canon, the Christian belief that only canonized texts are inspired writings, might need to be re-evaluated. The Scrolls are mostly written in Hebrew, but there are many written in Aramaic. Or everything that God wanted to say has already been said and therefore, God does not and will speak again. In the Scrolls are found never before seen psalms attributed to King David and Joshua. Except for one thing, the scroll for Psalms was most likely copied sometime between 30-50 C. The Enoch scroll was copied in Aramaic (a form of Hebrew) sometime between 200-150 B. Now the documents that scribes copied more than twenty centuries ago are a closely guarded, priceless treasure. , it matches the Isaiah of the Masoretic text which was written 1100 years later.
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