The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance For Understanding the Bible Judaism Jesus and Christianity A Historical Guide to the Ancient Manuscripts

About this book

The story of the discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls has become a part of Western lore. Who has not heard about the Bedouin shepherd who threw a rock into a cave heard a crash went in to explore and found the scrolls? The story in that form may be accurate but it turns out to be something of a simplification. As a matter of fact much remains unknown about the exact circumstances under which those scrolls were discovered. The story of the discovery at first deals with just one cave; the other ten were located at later times.