The importance of one stone- the Dead Sea scrolls- part 2

Posted by Eli Dahan on November 8, 2009 under Bible, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls | Be the First to Comment

The only book that survived completely from the Dead Sea scrolls from the bible is the book of Isaiah. Two copies of the book have been found in Qumran, one with all the chapters from the book, the other is with part of the chapters- few of them. The book is very similar to the book that we have today, and that means, my friends, that in the time of the writing (100 B.C.E) he probably had been sacred to the community in Qumran particularly and to the Jewish people in general.

The differences from the book that we have today is that the less of punctuation and vocalization that we have to day in the bible. The language is the same language; the spelling is with more vowel letters that help us and for sure to the community that had been in the desert to read. For example the word that means in Hebrew head with the letters resh aleph and shin is with the adding of the letter waw.

( ראש –In the bible , רואש – in the scroll)

In order to see an example from the scroll, see the link:

http://www.historian.net/DSSfont.htm

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Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation

Hebrew	Transcription	Translation
אֵם קְרִיאָה	‘ēm qerî’ām	vowel letter
נִקּוּד	niqqûd	vocalization, punctuation
יָם הַמֶּלַח	Yām hammelah	Dead sea
קָדוֹשׁ	qādôš	Sacred

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The importance of one stone- the Dead Sea scrolls- part 1

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If one of your goats as a shepherd would have gone and lost – would you chase after her? According to the a famous story when Moses was a shepherd he lost one his goat and due to his responsibility and the searching after her, The lord sais to himself that if Moses was so responsible to one goat – he can be the leader of the people of Israel.

 

In 1947 another shepherd want to a trip in the Dead Sea, and one of his goats has been lost. What did he do? He threw a stone to a cave in order to put out the goat that was hiding from him and he heard a strange noise. When he entered to the cave he found out scrolls that were hidden in a jug that made of clay. There were lying three scrolls that he used some of them in order to make a bonfire and the rest he sold to merchant that deals with antiquities. One of the scrolls contained the book of Isaiah.

 

 

The rest is history my friends. In the excavations in Qumran, near to the Dead Sea, have been found more then 900 documents, some of them from the Hebrew bible.

Next time we will speak about the findings from Qumran!

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Main phrases of the post + transcription + translation

Hebrew	Transcription	Translation
מִמְצָא	Mimtsā’	Finding
עַתִּיקוֹת	‘atîqôt	Antiquities
מְדוּרָה	medûrāh	Bonfire
חֶרֶס	heres	Clay
עָשׂוּי	‘āśûy	Made of
כַּד	kad	Jug
רוֹעֶה	Rô’eh	Shepherd

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