appearance dead sea scrolls This was the most important documentary discovery of the 20th century. But in a sense, they did not provide the basis for what many thought was promised: a complete revision of everything we thought we knew about Christianity. The reality of the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls is not simple, but it is also strange, which makes it an ideal subject for a YouTube channel Ochelagagiven its tendency to explore the obscure side roads of religious history. And in fact, as presenter Tommy Trelawney said: His new video abovethey are the “oldest Biblical documents ever discovered”, and whatever the details, this status certainly justifies the tremendous scrutiny paid to them over the past 80 years.
That’s because the scroll was discovered in 1946 by a Bedouin shepherd who was looking for a lost goat in a series of caves near ancient ruins along the Dead Sea. Anyway, the story moves on and Trelawney explains some of the complications that emerge when you examine it more closely.
However, the fact remains that these caves contained “some 900 individual manuscripts” in total, with scrolls tightly wound and largely well preserved. Of these, 40 percent were “similar to books found in the Bible,” 30 percent were apocryphal texts “banned” from the Bible, and a further 30 percent were “previously unknown to academic knowledge.” The last includes “texts depicting apocalyptic visions of secretive religious communities and great wars in the heavens.”
Most interestingly, there was also a “scroll entirely made of copper listing the locations of lost treasures.” None of them have ever been discovered, just as the contents of the other documents have not forced a major rethink about the religion at the heart of much of Western civilization. In fact, Biblical scholar Robert Alter said, write to london book reviewsAlthough there is “no scholarly credibility to the idea that these sectarian works were actually Christian,” some researchers argue that the blueprint for everything, including the “Gospel Stories” and the figure of the Messiah, “was laid down in scrolls and followed by the first Christian writers.” But they reveal much about the worldview of certain fringe believers who went into the desert to protect their unorthodox beliefs from the harsh judgment of mainstream society, and for nearly 20 centuries they remained safe.
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