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How complete are the Dead Sea scrolls?

What books do they contain? Which ones are missing? New Testament? Old Testament? Apocryphal?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    They are bits and parts of the the OT and some contemporary writings in the early Christian days. The Christians will dismiss them all as being /Essenic sect texts, and they contradict and make some bible writings look fake, stupid and foolish. Little of the findings has anything to do with the New Testament. The main take-away is the wide variety of OT writings and how fluid and flexible they were over time. Remember, it wasn't until 100AD when the Old testament was fixed as to it's content.

    Google wikipedia on the dead sea scrolls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    The lifeless Sea Scrolls are from the previous testomony. The previous testomony books have been written 1000's and hundreds of years earlier Christ grew to become into born (40 diverse authors). there have been 4 hundred years of silence between the previous and New Testaments. the perfect occasion from the lifeless Sea Scrolls is the e book of Isaiah which grew to become into written 800 years earlier Jesus grew to become into born yet it grew to become into particularly perfect in its prophecy of Jesus -- Isaiah financial ruin fifty 3 in specific. Jesus even quoted from Isaiah. The lifeless Sea Scrolls have given Christians and Jews alike super self assurance in the variations of the previous Testaments we've been employing for years -- in basic terms yet another occasion that we are able to be valuable in the Bible.

  • 1 decade ago

    There are no New Testament era texts among the scrolls.

    The Wikipedia article has a list of scrolls found categorized by the cave they were found in:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls

  • 1 decade ago

    They are the books of the Essenes, a Jewish sect and have nothing to do with Christianity.

    They are useful for recording the myths and rituals of life around the time of Christ, though.

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  • Paul
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The entire scroll of Isaiah is intact as far as I remember.

    Here is a link to what I can find on the DSS.

    http://www.gnosis.org/library/scroll.htm

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    THE WHOLE TORAH....IM NOT minister I would suggest googling this..

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