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What do the Dead Sea Scrolls say about Jesus? Nothing. However, they shed some light on the world in which Jesus lived. This scroll, the Messianic Apocalypse (4Q521), has a list of miracles very similar to Luke 7:21–22, even though it was written approximately 150 years before Luke’s Gospel. Photo: Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
Some claimed to find hidden references to Jesus among the scrolls while others claimed the scrolls showed Christianity derived from the teachings of the Essene community. While some of these theories have been given wide reportage in the popular press, sane biblical scholarship has ignored them.
The 800 to 900 fragments that were discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls contained portions of every book in the Old Testament except for Esther, including the entire book of Isaiah. These fragments were not all written in Hebrew.
In some sense, the Dead Sea Scrolls have nothing to do with Jesus because they were most of them, with a few possible exceptions, copied before Jesus was even doing His earthly ministry. But they do help us understand the world into which Jesus came.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.
The scrolls help us recreate this historical moment. We learn about the varied religious landscape of Judaism during this period—from which emerged early Christianity. For it is during this time, in the first century C.E., the final century of the Dead Sea Scrolls’ composition, that Jesus of Nazareth launched his ministry.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls gave us a glimpse into Jewish life at the time of Jesus. What insights do they provide on how his teachings took shape? Dated as early as the second...
Almost from the moment the first Dead Sea Scrolls came under scholarly scrutiny, the question of their relation to early Christianity became a key issue. The early days of Qumrana research produced some spectacular theories regarding the relationship among Jesus, the first Christians and the Qumran community.
LAWRENCE – The exact identity and philosophy of the sect of Jewish scribes who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls around the time of Jesus – often called the Essenes — are part of the mystery that has surrounded the scrolls since their 1947 discovery became known to the world.
Scholars have been cautious about drawing a direct line between Jesus and the Dead Sea Scroll sectarians. Indeed, perhaps the most criticized sentence in the vast literature about the Dead Sea Scrolls is one penned by the great American literary critic Edmund Wilson.