The Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They MatterFrom the BAS Library Talkback Add Your CommentThe Dead Sea Scrolls have fascinated the world since their discovery 60 years ago. This collection of articles from Biblical Archaeology Review covers some of the major topics in Scrolls studies. Just what are the Dead Sea Scrolls, anyway? Who wrote them, and when? Most scholars believe they were the work of an ancient group of Jews known as the Essenes, who lived at the settlement of Qumran, along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, near where the Scrolls were found. Biblical Archaeology Review editor Hershel Shanks, in “The Enigma of Qumran,” interviewed four prominent archaeologists about the site and its relationship (or not) to the Scrolls. In “An Interview with John Strugnell,” Shanks talks to the highly respected but controversial former editor of the Scrolls publication project about the earliest days of Scrolls research and about the tumultuous period that would see the Scrolls opened up to all scholars for study. The Dead Sea Scrolls generated so much excitement when they were first found in part because it was thought they might contain some of the earliest Christian writings. Graham Stanton asks, “A Gospel Among the Scrolls?” but replies, Alas not. Though the Scrolls do not contain early Christian writings, they do reflect a worldview very similar to that of Jesus and John the Baptist. Magen Broshi explains “What Jesus Learned from the Essenes.” Ben Zion Wacholder examines perhaps the key figure in the Dead Sea Scrolls in “Who Is the Teacher of Righteousness?” Hartmut Stegemann discusses another aspect of this figure in “Jesus and the Teacher of Righteousness—Similarities and Differences.” These articles are just a taste of what BAS has published on the Dead Sea Scrolls over the years. To access all the past issues of BAS publications, full of articles about the Dead Sea Scrolls, become a BAS Premier Member. Click here to join today!
Connie's questionConnie, if you research under "calendar" or "roman calendar" you will see that the current calendar was presented to the then-current Pope in 531 by a monk named Dionysius Exiguus. But Dionysius was wrong about the date of the birth of Jesus - scholars now put that three years earlier in 4 BC not 1 BC. So if Jesus was born in Aril 4BC, he could not have been born in the year 0, Dec 25, or in the year -1 (1 BC), on Dec 25. In effect, if you do some research, you will see that all dates are wrong, from that starting point in 531. Everyone knows but no one wants to change the calendar. • • • • • • • NEED MORE INFO ON WHY THEY ARE IMPORTANTIts pretty good but i think it needs to have more information on why they are important to us!!! • • • • • • • time lineI am a little confused on the time line you have posted, I was always under the assumption that the cuurent era began with the birth of Jesus. And that hew was app. 33 years when he was crucafied. That would make His crusafixtion somewhere betwee 32-34 AD. The time line shows His birth at 4A.D. and his crucafixtion at 30 A.D.. Which would make him 26. We have always been told that men could not begin to teach before the were 30 years old. Could you explain this to me, I am sure I am missing somethg significant. Thank you. • • • • • • • SCROLLSKEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! • • • • • • • teacher of righteousnessdoes Barbara Thiering's theory of the teacher of righteousness being John the Baptist, fit with the idea that the text is telling of future events when the end of days is imminent? • • • • • • • The Dead Sea ScrollsI agree with Mr. Johson in the fact that the scrolls should be shared publically. No one should have absolute authority as to peace-meal the information out as they see fit. • • • • • • • DSSI certainly agree with Don. those findings should be shared with the public. remember the scrolls were not found by archaeologist but rather poor shepherds. even then it was shared. • • • • • • • PhotosThe Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah is available on the Internet along with an English translation. I also have two different book with photos of the entire scroll of Isaiah. But, that is all a layperson can find. I would like to have photos of all of the balance of the scrolls and fragments. • • • • • • • Robert EisenmannWhy is not Bob Eisenmann mentioned amoung the people surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls. Surely, his efforts deserve mention • • • • • • • Where are the photo copies?Why are photocopies of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the internet not available free to the public? Why are the intellectuals who control them allowed to have such exclusive rights, and cut the public out of such finds of Biblical importance? I’m only glad these fellows went into the field of archaeology. Had they gone into the field of atmospherics we would all be denied the very air we breath. • • • • • • • |
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