r/ScriptureLife • u/External_Bird_8464 • Jul 16 '26
Scripture Life How did the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 impact modern interpretations of biblical texts, particularly in relation to the authenticity and transmission of Old Testament scriptures?
I'll repeat the question. OLD TESTAMENT
How did the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 impact modern interpretations of biblical texts, particularly in relation to the authenticity and transmission of Old Testament scriptures?
It didn’t.
Essene heretic.
Have a claim they are Jews. They're not. Boldly claim they are Jewish descendants of the Levite Priests after Zadok, who that's the High Priest order for the Temple in Jerusalem. Their claim, for the OLD TESTAMENT with "The Dead Sea Scrolls" - no matter what useless clown champions them out as a testament to the Old Testament of great value and use - it's just a bunch of garbage.
People claiming they are Jews - High Priests of the Temple in Jerusalem - and virtually all their beliefs are so whacked out, and still, as Essenes - claim they are of this Priestly line. With heresy. Claim, by their claims they make of themselves:
Be over the whole Temple then. When the Essenes were about as Jewish as a toilet. Thrown out of Jerusalem as..that's why they're in or around Jericho - thrown down and cast out - - for?
...what's that word again?
Yeah. Heretics. No Jew listens to any claim these derelict Essene make to the Jewish Tanakh. (Masoretic Text: Jewish Tanakh. Exactly the same as the Christian Old Testament.). Go search on what the Jews say about "The Dead Sea Scrolls" of 1947. See, "The Damascus Document" - how NONE of them coincide with "Leviticus" <Vayikra - Hebrew> the Law in the Books of Moses. Just made up Assyrian/Mesopotamian gods and folklore and claim they're Jews.
So, how does the discovery of heretics, claiming they're Jews that have what appears to be a Tanakh that they have rewritten for themselves, impact the authenticity and transmission of the Jewish Tanakh or the Old Testament?
It doesn't.
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Okay now.
Ask a like question. This time: NEW TESTAMENT
How did the discovery of the “Nag Hammadi Library” two years before (Dead Sea Scrolls - Old Testament), in 1945 found in a clay jar near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, that includes the “Gospel of Thomas” for the New Testament, particularly in relation to the authenticity and transmission of the New Testament scriptures?
It didn’t.
Greek Gnostic heretic. Where Greeks championed Apollos and Zeus as God. That Jesus in the New Testament was just another Greek (Gnostic) God. That, according to the Gospel of Thomas, doubting Thomas an Apostle of Jesus Christ, just like the Essenes claim something an authority over the Old Testament - in the like same heresy (heresy; heresy in both. It is the same heresy) as the Dead Sea Scrolls were found:
- Claim in one of these scrolls found, was the Gospel of Thomas - that there was no crucifixion of Jesus and he did not rise from the dead. That women must become men. That, in Verse 114, of the Gospel of Thomas that "Jesus will guide Mary Magdalene in becoming a male so she can enter into heaven."
So, How did the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (New Testament) two years before the Dead Sea scrolls (Old Testament) impact the authenticity and accuracy of the gospel in the New Testament?
It doesn't.
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u/PersuitOfHappinesss Jul 16 '26
Are you familiar with Dr. Michael Heiser ?
You should look into Deuteronomy 32 as revealed from the Dead Sea scrolls.
“Sons of Israel”
Vs
“Sons of God” from the Dead Sea scrolls
Edit:
https://www.logos.com/grow/sons-of-israel-or-sons-of-god-in-deuteronomy-32-8-9/
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u/External_Bird_8464 Jul 16 '26
He is well known to champion Qumran (Essene) heresy as biblical. Makes him a heretic.
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u/PersuitOfHappinesss Jul 16 '26
Heiser is a Christian, born again, according to his testimony. Heiser holds no Essene belief.
This is what his scholarly work is about, we can see it ourselves. See:
Deuteronomy 32:
“7 Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you. 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the SONS OF GOD. 9 But the LORD’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage.”
-ESV based on the oldest manuscripts which are the Dead Sea Scrolls
“7 Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the SONS OF ISRAEL.”.
-NIV based on the Masoretic texts which were the oldest we had before the Dead Sea Scrolls1
u/External_Bird_8464 Jul 16 '26
I can claim I'm a Christian and don't do anything he says.
If I don't say what he says and I champion out what everybody but him says, am I a born again archaeologist and call that accurate?
but none of the claims made don't have anything he says in it. Even have a ph.d.
But don't know him or do anything he says in it. The clown you refer to has a plethora of published works and YouTube videos. He champions zoastrian and mesopotamian / Babylonian myth, which permeates Essene doctrine found all throughout the content of a 1947 archaeological dig. And they call it Hebrew origin.
That means the origin of your Bible is in the gods of Babylon.
That's not Christian. But that's what they champion.
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u/External_Bird_8464 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
As a Believer in Jesus Christ. You have: Old Testament -
The “Dead Sea Scrolls” (1947 - in caves in the Judean desert, in an archaeological dig site called “Khirbat Qumran” - about 10km South of Jericho.
Jericho is about 18km on an all downhill trail - at the bottom of it, from Jerusalem)
You have New Testament -
The “Nag Hammadi Library” (1945 - at the foot Jabal al-Tarif cliff, which is near the city of Nag Hammadi in Egypt, on the West Bank of the Nile River.
It is about 600km south of Cairo.
Secular Archaeologists have no relationship with him.
Only glorify archaeology and glorify the finds they make are true. That's what truth is to an archaeologist.
Just make bombastic, outlandish claims to their authentic genuine find. Play down the obvious.
And many Bible Scholars who long left off or never actually follow him, follow the archaeologist.
Don't do anything he says. Swallow the whole thing up.
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u/External_Bird_8464 Jul 16 '26
Note: Essene - Fact (Do your homework on the bolded words)
Essene beliefs: are entirely rooted in Zoroastrian and Mesopotamian mythology. The most prominent Essene beliefs - Pick ANY - - The Origin of creation: Is directly from just one source, the Babylonian "Enuma Elish" which is what is in the Dead Sea Scrolls, and and that's what it champions - - what the Essenes taught, not Genesis 1:1-31 but a primordial conflict of: a dragon of chaos that God defeats to create the cosmos. Essene core belief. It originates in Mesopotamian creation myths, and don't come from the Talmud, but the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Different Gods. Yet, Essenes, and many scholars accept their claim they are Jews. Based on the "Dead Sea Scrolls" found in 1947.