Dead Sea Scrolls

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Dead Sea Scrolls

Place : Qumran (near Dead Sea)

Time : 1947 (discovered time)

Content : parchment or papyrus scrolls in jars

Language : Hebrew , Aramaic, Greek

Content of the Scrolls

1. Biblical manuscript2. Pseudepigrapha (apocryphal books)

3. Sectarian

Biblical manuscript

• Includes all the

books in Hebrew

Bible

• Except for Esther

• 40% of the identified

scrolls

Pseudepigrapha (apocryphal books)

• Document from Second Temple Period

• Contains Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach,

some non-canonical psalms, etc

• 30% of the identified scrolls

Sectarian

• Possible rules and beliefs of a particular

group

• Community of Essenes

• 30% of the identified scrolls

Essenes

• A Jewish religious group

• Possible inhabitant in Qumran

• Stoicism

• Forbids sacrificing animals

• Live in poverty

Christianity and Essenes

• The children of light vs. the children of

darkness

• Teacher of Righteousness

• Chosen by God

• Messiah

Essenes JesusSon of light Every man

Reject sinners Accept sinners

Follow the community

Follow Jesus/ Follow God

Hatred to women

Accept women

Thank Thank you!you!