Controversy On Scrolls

How much about the scrolls do we currently know about? It says there are different versions, but doesn’t explain much. What does the book mean by different versions? I mean that as in are they different translations, different messages in general, or different ideas? It says later on that there were still sacrifices. When did people stop using animal sacrifices for God?
The Dead Sea Scrolls were controversial since they were first created, but the controversy increased dramatically in the late 80s and early 90s. The controversy can be traced in numeral publications, and even though some television documentaries. Much of the controversy is from the lack of reading the scrolls, because they still have yet to be published. Many books have claimed that the scrolls describe Christianity at its earlier, and that the founder was Jesus or John the Baptist. Some people have speculated that the Vatican was involved in covering up damaged information within the texts, although most scholars reject these speculations.
Many of the scrolls were slow to come in the public arena due to a good number of factors such as the scholars not wanting to devote their full attention to the publication of the scrolls.
The scrolls were also delayed because a good deal of reconstruction is necessary due to the deterioration of the scrolls, and the original scholars who were entrusted passed them to their students and nobody else. Due to these factors, the scrolls were released slowly to the public, and why they are not available to the public. In 1991, the Huntington Library in California had photographs of the scrolls, and decided to release them to the public in 1991. This made it so there could be more of a discussion about their content to the
public. Although the scrolls were released the the general public, there are still large disagreements about the content on them. Many people believe that the scrolls were the library for a group of Essenes. The scrolls offer a great insight into the lives of the group, and their mindset during this period of time. Currently the Qumran library contains all the books of the Hebrew Bible aside from Esther, though is could have been a historical accident to blame for its absence. Before these discoveries, the earliest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible were dated to the Middle Ages, and the discovery has been helpful to text critics that try to reconstruct the original text. What was learned from the manuscripts is that the biblical text was somewhat fluid before it was standardized in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Not everyone agreed on the texts, and there were even different versions of the sacred texts. There are two community rules among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and they both speak of the nature of the community, its rules, its structure, and so on. The documents are the Community Rule and the Damascus Document. They both are have large differences, but despite them, the communities reflected in the two scrolls are very similar. The community reflected within the scrolls can be characterized into several different rubrics. It was priestly, centered on Torah, sectarian, apocalyptic, based on special esoteric revelation, and highly structured Zadokite priests would be at the top of Qumran’s structure, so there are typical priestly concerns within the scrolls. Some scholars debate whether or not the members of the sect participated in the sacrifices that were held at Jerusalem. There were many times during the sect’s history when it frequented the temple, and many times when it did not. It is also possible that members of the sect differed among themselves with some coming to the temple, and sometimes others would refuse. The scrolls also say that atonement is possible apart from sacrifices, and both Prayer and Torah observance are declared equivalents to sacrifices in the same effect.