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

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

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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The Dead Sea Scrolls

Posted by Naama Baumgarten on January 17, 2008 under Archaeology | Be the First to Comment

In 1947, by the north-western tip of the Dead Sea, a few Bedouins accidentally stumbled upon what would turn out to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the century: the Dead Sea Scrolls. Following this initial discovery of parts of seven scrolls, archaeologists uncovered a huge library, comprised of thousands of scroll fragments in different states of preservation, found in eleven different caves in the vicinity of the ruins called Qumran.

The community preserving the scrolls led a segregate lifestyle at the Qumran site from the second century B.C.E., a time at which they retreated to this desert asylum as a result of ideological disputes with mainstream Judaism based in the Jerusalem Temple, up to their destruction by Roman troops in 68 C.E. The Qumran community (considered by most scholars to be a sect called the Essenes, mentioned by Josephus, Philo and Pliny the Elder) observed strict interpretations of various laws, especially those concerning purity, and also held different views than mainstream Judaism as to the calendar that should be observed and the importance of the luminaries in setting this calendar, keeping a 364-day year, an accurate sun year according to their calculations.

The large library, kept in clay jars and preserved thanks to the dry desert air, includes many biblical scrolls, exposing to us different biblical versions current at the time as well as linguistic and spelling developments, scribal practices, and interpretations of the sacred texts. They also include many sectarian writings, revealing to us the beliefs and practices of the inhabitants of the village and some of the inner-politics of Second Temple Judaism. Some scholars suggested that the roots of early Christianity could be found at Qumran, due to the centrality of purity and baptism, however the abundance of differences causes others to doubt this hypothesis.

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