In 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The Scriptures (laid in a cave) for over 2000 years. They contained books of the bible written Hebrew by the scribes. The bible has been translated dozens of times since the scrolls were written over 2000 years.
When the scripture was translated from English into Hebrew the scripture was then compared to modern day bible translations. When the scripture was cross-matched with modern bible translations, the scripture was almost identical and only a few words differed.
Although the bible has been translated many times God has maintained control of the translation of the Scripture:
Every Scripture is God- breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
(2Ti 3:16 -17 WEB)
The discovery of the scrolls began in the spring of 1947 when an Arab shepherd boy missed one of his goats. While searching for it in one of the steep valleys, he threw a stone into a hillside cave and heard what sounded to him like the breaking of pottery. Summoning his assistant, the two entered the cave and found some pottery jars 25 to 29 inches high and about 10 inches wide. In these, they found objects which looked much like miniature mummies, but were actually leather scrolls wrapped in squares of linen cloth, and covered over with a pitch-like substance possibly derived from the Dead Sea . With a vague idea that they had discovered "antikas" which might bring them money, they divided the scrolls and set off for Bethlehem where they located an antique dealer and offered him the scrolls for twenty pounds. He refused them.
Afterward they were directed to Jerusalem where, after bargaining for weeks, they sold four of the scrolls to Archbishop Athanasius Samuel of St. Mark's Syrian Orthodox Monastery, and three to E. L. Sukenik, professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University , Jerusalem .
Archbishop Samuel showed his scrolls to several authorities who were uncertain about their content and value. Finally they were taken to Dr. John C. Trever, acting director of the American Schools of Oriental Research ( Jerusalem ), who photographed and studied some of them, then sent copies to Dr. W. F. Albright of Johns Hopkins University . This well-known authority tentatively dated them to be "about 100 B.C.," and declared them "an amazing discovery."The Arab shepherds revealed the cave where the scrolls had been found, but war between the Arabs and Jews made scientific investigation impossible until February of 1949, when Dr. Laukester Harding of the Jordan Department of Antiquities, and Pcrc R. de Vaux of the Dominican Bible School of Jerusalem carefully excavated its floor level. Within three weeks they found some 800 scroll fragments belonging to about seventy-five different leather scrolls, a few fragments of papyrus scrolls, portions of linen in which scrolls had been wrapped, Roman lamps, and por tions of jars and potsherds from about fifty different jars. Apparently some 200 scrolls had been hidden away in the cave.
Altogether, the remains of more than 500 different manuscripts, or large portions of manuscripts, and multiplied thousands of fragments were found in these eleven caves. About one-third of the manuscripts are books of the Old Testament, the remainder are commentaries on some Old Testament books, Apocryphal and wisdom books, hymns and psalms, liturgies, theological works, and works relating to the people who lived at Qumran and wrote the scrolls. There are manuscripts or fragments of every book of the Old Testament, except Esther. The most popular books, to judge from the number of copies found of each, were Isaiah, the Psalms, Deuteronomy, and Genesis. These were written on rolls of leather which had been carefully ruled to guide the scribes. A few were written on papyrus and one on copper.
When the scripture was translated from English into Hebrew the scripture was then compared to modern day bible translations. When the scripture was cross-matched with modern bible translations, the scripture was almost identical and only a few words differed.
Bible Artifacts Discovered |
The following website gives a detailed analysis of the following discoveries:
Noah’s Ark, Ark of the Covenant, Red Sea Crossing, Sodom and Gomorrah, Mount Sinai
Wyatt Archaeological Research
http://www.pilgrimpromo.com/WAR/
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