Holman QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics (Holman Quicksource Guides) by Doug Powell

Author:Doug Powell [Powell, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2006-06-30T18:30:00+00:00

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Because of the frailty of writing materials and the climate of Palestine (which promotes the rotting of the materials), the Old Testament has a manuscript authority much like other ancient texts. Writings that have survived for any length of time have only done so because they were stored in vessels that were kept in dry and arid climates. This is precisely what happened in the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There are a number of versions of the story of how the scrolls were discovered. Although we will probably never know exactly how it happened with certainty, the basic features seem to be as follows.8

In 1947 seven ancient manuscripts were offered for sale by a Bethlehem dealer in antiquities. He had bought them from a Bedouin shepherd who had found them in a cave near Qumran on the Dead Sea. The shepherd had been looking for a lost goat.

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