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The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity James VanderKam, Peter Flint
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

"There are other figures – apart from God himself – who are sometimes described as divine in ancient Jewish sources, both in the Bible and in later writings from near the time of Jesus and his followers. Hubbard in their book “Introduction to Bible Interpretation”, page 21, write the following about the significance of knowing how the Bible has been interpreted over the centuries: “A brief survey of the history of Bible interpretation is The reader has most likely heard of the famous “Dead Sea Scrolls” that were discovered in a series of 11 caves located around the perimeter of the Dead Sea area beginning in 1947. Apr 11, 2014 - The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls considerably expanded the corpus of literature relevant to the study of messianism. Jul 1, 2013 - Does Jesus care more about what we do or what we believe? And in the meantime, while we take this verse out of its context and hold onto this very limited understanding, I believe we miss out on a much deeper meaning of Jesus' statement that comes with a lot more responsibility for followers of Jesus. Sep 16, 2013 - Charlesworth's introductory essay “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Discovery and Challenge to Biblical Studies” catches readers up to speed on the evolution of this field of study. May 13, 2014 - This declaration by Jesus in John 14:6 has traditionally been singled out, quoted, and interpreted to mean that believing and confessing in Jesus Christ is the only exclusive way to God and to salvation in life after death. We, however, need to Even when Christians began recognizing divergences between the Jewish Scriptures and their own, many saw it as an opportunity to discover more than one way to understand divine communication. May 1, 2012 - For Old Testament studies, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide invaluable information relating to the text of the Hebrew Bible in the time of Jesus and just before. Jan 3, 2012 - The Dead Sea Scrolls include three types of documents: the earliest existing copies of books from the Hebrew Bible, known in Hebrew as the Tanach; copies of other early works that are not part of Tanach; and works related to a specific sect that existed among the Jews at the time of the Second Temple in Jerusalem They might have had training in Bible, taught from either an academic or a Christian point of view, but they knew nothing about rabbinic Judaism, Jewish law or Talmud. We can't be too hard on them for not knowing about all these textual complexities, though, since the Dead Sea Scrolls weren't discovered until 1947.