How Can We Be Sure We Have the Right Bible? (John D. Meade & Peter J. Gurry)
The Crossway Podcast
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What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Caves of Qumran?
The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 on the northwest corner of the Dead Sea in Israel. Some 900 total manuscripts, but only about 200 of those were biblical. So what it did is before that discovery, we had to rely on later manuscripts for what the text of the Old Testament said. With the discovery that Ed C. Scrolls, we were able to go back in time over a thousand years and look at the state of the text of books like the Psalter, Isaiah, Deuteronomy, first hand.
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