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Episode 210: Sidnie White Crawford - What You Really Need to Know about the Dead Sea Scrolls

The Bible For Normal People

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What Do You Think of Enoch and Jubilees?

In kumran, when we have these, you said only 20, 25 % of te of the scrolls were made up o biblical texts. Was there any sense in which do we know if they sort of kept the biblical books that we think of as separate and more sacred than these other texts? I'd say, actually, it's kind of somewhere in the middle. It's really clear that the five books of the pentatuch, the tora, were the, were the sacred text barnon,. That was and then you had the pets, and they were scripture.

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