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The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran | Bible Trek – Dead Sea series –  01

In this episode, we visit the lowest point on earth, 1300ft below sea level! Here the Essene community, who lived by the Dead Sea, carefully preserved and copied the Scriptures. In AD68, they hid the texts from the Romans in caves. In 1947, archaeologists found them. This extraordinary discovery proved that the biblical texts we read today are highly accurate and reliable compared to the scrolls hidden 2,000 years ago. 𝗥𝗘𝗙𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 Isaiah 35.1–2 𝗜𝗻 𝗮 𝗻𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 The word of the Lord remains forever. 1 Peter 1.25 𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 In 1947, some ancient jars were discovered by chance in a cave at Qumran near the Dead Sea. Two of them contained scrolls – the ancient equivalent of the book. The manuscripts, which included the Old Testament prophecies of Isaiah, turned out to be 2,000 years old. Archaeologists searched the surrounding caves and found hundreds of scrolls and thousands of fragments with biblical and other sacred writings. Up until then the oldest known biblical manuscripts had been from the Middle Ages. The remarkable degree of similarity between the scrolls of Qumran and later Bible copies prove the reliability of Jewish textual tradition: scribes copied the words of Scripture with the utmost reverence and care. Presumably, the scrolls belonged to the Essenes, a desert community waiting for God to purge the earth from impurity and Roman occupation. They apparently hid their sacred texts in the caves of Qumran during a prolonged Jewish revolt against Rome (AD66–73). 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿 In his book, 'Can we trust the Gospels?' Bible scholar Peter Williams explains why he went with the word ‘trust’. Nowadays, the word ‘faith’ evokes a sense of ‘non-rational belief – something not based on evidence’. However, for early Christians, the Latin word for faith, fides,  meant something far closer to trust, and ‘trust of course, can be based on evidence’.  Romans 15.4 says that ‘everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope’. We need hope, endurance and encouragement today. So can we trust the Scriptures? What evidence is there?  The complete Isaiah scroll discovered in the Qumran caves was dated a thousand years older than any other known copy. This discovery revealed how Scripture had been faithfully copied over the centuries. Go on your own journey of discovery, explore the evidence for the reliability of the Bible, then trust and find the very thing you’re looking for today: encouragement, endurance and hope. 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 Read on to discover more about the enduring power of the Bible: Hebrews 4.12, 2 Timothy 3.16-17, Psalm 1 Bible verses are from the New International Version (NIV) unless otherwise stated. --- #BibleTrek #Bible #DeadSea #Israel #Jesus #God