The Dead Sea Scrolls

The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of some 900 documents, found in the 1947th and 1956. in 11 caves near Qumran near the ancient village Khirbet Qumran on the northwest coast of the Dead Sea. Scrolls were made of papyrus and leather (mostly) wrapped in linen cloth and then placed in clay jars. Assumed to be incurred during the period of the 163rd BC to the 233rd AD. These texts are mostly written in Hebrew, and a smaller number is in Aramaic.

In the spring of 1947 in a cave near the Dead Sea they were found in vessels in which were very old scrolls. Only a year after it became clear about what it is really about. Age of the scrolls was estimated for a period of 200th BC to the 68th AD and contain the oldest records of Jewish Bible. Among them is also found a copy of the biblical book of Isaiah was more than anything it had previously been saved in the original Hebrew language.

Publishing the content of those scrolls was followed by a large dose mystification. Some researchers have insisted that they prove the existence of the divine nature of Jesus, while they believed that there were hidden, for Christianity harmful items that were expelled from the official biblical version. By gradual publishing could be find out that the scrolls, except the biblical texts there are also unknown "comments" of the Bible, the last words of some figures, a list of rituals, instructions for the final apocalyptic battle, and even a list of buried treasure.

Dead Sea Scrolls have not yet been fully explored and their secret waiting to be solved in the new millennium