Dead Sea scrolls
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Aerial view of the Qumran ruins after excavations. According to a view almost universally held until the 1990s, the documents were written and hidden by a community of Essenes who lived in the Qumran area. This is known as the Essene Hypothesis. Jews revolted against the Romans in AD 66. Before they were massacred by Roman troops, the Essenes hid their scriptures in caves, not to be discovered until 1947. The opinion that the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls were Essenes is the most prevalent.
pinner writes: The Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai on two stone tablets are found in their purest form on a strip of ancient delicate parchment. This scroll is part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a trove of biblical and religious writings that were only discovered by accident in the 1940s in a desert cave east of Jerusalem.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls (300 BCE – 68 CE) The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves near the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea. Historical, paleographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as carbon-14 dating, established that the scrolls dated from the third century BCE to 68 CE. Dating from the late Second Temple Period, when Jesus lived, the Dead Sea Scrolls are older than any other surviving manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures, except for the Nash Papyrus.
