Find Out The Mystery Of The Dead Sea Scrolls

Lost treasures always attract our curiosity

Lost treasures always attract our curiosity. Most of the important discoveries in the caves and beneath the sand inform us about the people of the time than we could ever imagine. Dead Sea popularly is known in the Bible as the "Salt Sea". It is an inland body of water that is loaded with mineral content and plays an outstanding task in the Bible by acting as an obstruction that blocked the traffic from the East. Dead Sea has some post biblical names like the "Sea of Sodom", "Sea of Asphalt", "Sea of Lot and many more.

Scrolls were discovered in caves named the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea in Jordan in 1947. An astounding part of this is the truth that the group looking after these scrolls left a map indicating the site of the scrolls. That led to the discovery of many more manuscripts.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are possibly the most significant archaeological find that helps scholars well-understand the historical link between Judaism and Christianity. Measured as the most essential manuscript discovery at present, these scrolls were exposed along the coast of the Dead Sea, consequently naming it so.

Dead Sea Scroll has both religious and historical significance. Here are some interesting facts about them:

Scrolls are fragmented texts that are numbered according to the caves they were found from.

Divided into two categories - Biblical and Non-Biblical

They are mostly made of animal skin, copper and papyrus.

Written with carbon based ink from right to left with; no punctuations and at times they even lack space between words.

They are believed to be a part of a Jewish library, hidden in the caves during the outbreak of the first Jewish revolt.

The Isaiah Scroll is 1000 years old and is considered to be the oldest manuscript yet found in the Old Testament.

The scrolls consist of unknown stories about popular biblical figures like Abraham and Noah, Enoch.

These were found by a Bedouin shepherd in a chain of caves.

Found in cave 11, the Temple Scroll is the highest one and its length is about 26.7 feet.

These are recognized for their historical significance. No matter what the origin of these scrolls, its value remains noteworthy and irrefutable. The discovery of the scrolls was instant world news. It was a rich heritage that the current generation would definitely find more than exciting subject to study.

by: Arun Singh

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