A Review of the Literature
Daozhu Yao
Research Skill
Frank Carney
June 30, 2012
The Relationship between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christianity
A Review of the Literature
Many Dead Sea Scrolls, are the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscripts. The major works in the Old Testament can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Ulrich, 2004). Large numbers of the Dead Sea Scrolls are parchment , but others are papyrus. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the Dead Sea near Qumran in 1947. A young shepherd went into the cave near the Dead Sea to look for his sheep. In order to startle the sheep, he threw stones into the cave that resulted in …show more content…
These scrolls reveal information that scholars couldn’t find in the Bible before (Ulrich, 2004). The community played an important role in the formation of traditional scripture. These scrolls increased the understanding of revelation for the people who wrote and collected the biblical books. Because the Dead Sea Scrolls stopped the biblical criticism over the past two centuries, the Dead Sea scrolls have such a big impact on the Bible. There is a corresponding scroll for each book of the Old Testament, except the book of Esther. The Dead Sea Scrolls was written before Jesus came to the world, not after Jesus came to the world. Making the Christian more happy is the dead sea scrolls contained the most controversial parts of the Bible. Some scholars doubted in the past whether the book of Daniel was written historically accurate. Much of the information in Daniel is also found in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Mark, 2007). Some scholars, who against the Bible, spent so much time building the fortress, now is boom collapsed by the Dead Sea Scrolls. The records in the Bible were proved to be true. Since then, no archaeologist dared to challenge the