Much has been written about these texts but there is also a great deal of misinformation concerning them. Our most important task will be to separate the sensational from the credible. We will explore the historical and cultural background(s) of the creation and use of these texts. We will read as much as possible from the texts themselves (in translation, of course). Our goal is to appreciate the diversity and complexity of this ancient community. Over 900 individual documents have been recovered from the area surrounding Qumran. Over 200 of these are biblical manuscripts that represent every book of the Jewish Bible except Esther, with Isaiah, Psalms, and Deuteronomy the most prominent. These documents show us how the Bible was transmitted in their day, and this gives us an intermediate phase between the period of their original authorship and the creation of the important medieval texts.This is an essay about the Dead Sea Scrolls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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