Dead Sea Scrolls Research Paper

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Daniel Malave
11/17/15
Mrs. Michalski
Religion 9-Dead Sea Scrolls Essay

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by complete accident in 1947 by a young shepherd boy who was searching for a lost goat in the Judean Desert. The boy had wandered to the location of the cave where he would find 7 of the Dead Sea Scrolls while looking for his goat. The boy entered a cave, the first found in that region, where jars containing 7 of the Dead Sea Scrolls were located. The boy took some of the scrolls back to his family so that they could examine them. The family tried to sell the scrolls at a local marketplace and were waiting for a potential customer, which piqued the interest of Dr. John Trevor from the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), who declared the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls and archaeological wonder and published a report on the young shepherd’s findings. …show more content…

Today, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by some to be the most impressive archaeological manuscript finding of all time. The Dead Sea Scrolls help to validate the scholarly teachings from the old Hebrew Bible by shedding light on the events of that time (namely between 250 BC and AD 68). Additionally, the Dead Sea Scrolls have also added onto the Old Testament. For example, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls has a verse from Psalm 145 that was missing from the Bible. After that scrolls discovery and examination, the missing verse was added into the Bible as Psalm 145, verse 13b. The addition of lost verses and texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls have also helped scholars to get ever closer to the original translations of the Old Testament. Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls even point to Jesus being the true Messiah, even though they

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