Episode 14 - The Dead Sea Scrolls — How Accurate?
Description
Based on the Masoretic Text created between the 7th and 10th centuries CE, historians were unsure how trustworthy the Hebrew Scriptures actually were until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There would undoubtedly be difficulties after a thousand years of copying. Could we ever be certain, for instance, that the scribes, despite being skilled copyists, made no mistakes? We now had a whole Bible copy from the Hebrew Scriptures that was almost 1,000 years older than the medieval copies thanks to the discovery of the Isaiah Scroll from the second century BCE. This was a sensation in every way! Texts dating back more than a thousand years could now be thoroughly analyzed. The Isaiah scroll was the measure of the Bible tradition. It was found that the text had been excellently copied.
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