What Are Dead Sea Scrolls?

The Dead Sea Scrolls contributed to our knowledge of the Bible and first-century B.C.E. Judaism because it provided the people of their day with two types of oral literature (Tullock & McEntire, 2012). The kinds of writings that we are referring to are called Halakhah and Haggadah. “Halakhah, or rules for the living based on the interpretation of the legal portions of the Old Testament” and “Haggadah, a more sermonic and illustrative kind of material that consisted of such things as fanciful expansions of the narrative parts of the Old Testament” (Tullock & McEntire, 2012, p.359).
Reference

Tullock, J., & McEntire, M., (2012). The Old Testament story (9th Ed.). Pearson Learning Solutions.