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“In some ways—oddly enough—the more than 200 biblical manuscripts in Hebrew found among the Dead Sea Scrolls have elevated the authority of the Greek Septuagint at the expense of the Masoretic text, the received Hebrew version preserved by the Jewish community for 2,000 years. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the received text had […]
Continue ReadingGood discussion of the ancient texts, Hebrew use of consonants, and how the Dead Sea Scrolls have helped clarify passages. https://www.baslibrary.org/bible-review/15/4/11
Continue ReadingBAS Article – https://www.baslibrary.org/bible-review/9/2/17 Intro paragraph: “How did the Church decide which books to include in the New Testament? When was the decision made? By whom? The surviving evidence unfortunately does not provide answers in the detail we would like, but it does document a number of the developments that eventually produced the New Testament […]
Continue Readinghttp://lawrenceschiffman.com/resources/websites/ Below was extracted from that page. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter DeadSeaScrolls.com The Great Isaiah Scroll The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature Scrolls From the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship West Semitic Research Project Center for Online Judaic […]
Continue Readinghttp://originsofchristianity.net/ The Origins of Christianity is a portal that tries to take you back into the ancient world where Christianity was born. The site was built in coordination with a course (CL C 3503: The Origins of Christianity) offered at the University of Oklahoma. The course is taught by Professor Kyle Harper.
Continue ReadingLink to a page of intros and links to articles – https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/category/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/
Continue Reading**********************************************************************************************************************************You A man suffered a serious heart attack while shopping in a store.The store clerks called 911 when they saw him collapse to the floor. The paramedics rushed the man to the nearest hospital where he had emergency open heart bypass surgery…He awakened from the surgery to find himself in the care of nuns […]
Continue ReadingBart Ehrman’s Nutshell and More From The Book of James in a Nutshell as the first post in the series on James by Bart Ehrman’s one-sentence, fifty-word summary from here. The Book of James consists of ethical instruction for followers of Jesus who are to live in ways pleasing to God as a way of […]
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