Dead Sea Scrolls

Dead Sea Scrolls

The ancient Hebrew religion comprised of different unique cultural activities such as the Dead Sea scrolls. The Dead Sea scroll is commonly known as a collection of manuscripts contained by the Aramaic and the Hebrews. The scriptures got discovered in the Qumran Caves, which are near the Dead Sea. The scrolls get divided into non-biblical manuscripts and the non-biblical manuscripts. The Biblical part does contain materials that are related to the Hebrew Bible. Most parts of the documents did sound familiar to the religious texts found in the Second Temple era. The relationship between the Biblical manuscripts and today’s Hebrew Bible are so similar in their descriptions. Secondly, the non-biblical script did emphasize mostly on religious faith and dwelled on practices of other religious societies. In the Dead Sea scrolls, we discover that in the 2nd century, different a group of Judeans did focus on achieving power, political leadership, and preserving religious society (Roitman, p.90). Moreover, we discover the various methods used by the Jews in the second era to interact with the world wound them.

There were different controversial views over the discovery of the Dead Sea scroll. Moreover, the date and the identity of the community characterized in the scripture did trigger heated controversies. In today’s era, the scholarly outlook concerning the period and the background of the Dead Sea scroll gets focused on the historical and evidence in the carbon-14 dating (Lange, p.53). More so, the Qumran sect’s origin is hypothesized by some researchers to be in the societies of the Hassidim. According to different historical and Archeological proof that Qumran gets established in the second half and century ago (Lange, p.53).

The Jews were divided into three by historians: The Pharisees, Sadducees, and the Essenes. The division of the Jews was according to the second period of the Temple. The Essenes comprised of a separatist group, a section of it constituted of an ascetic monastic society that drew back in the wilderness. Secondly, the Sadducees mainly included the priestly families and the aristocratic. The Pharisees comprised majorly of the jay circles. The groups did engage mostly in religious and political kinships. Nonetheless, in the groups, there were interrelationships and development of quite obscure and arc the source of a broad, contrasting scholarly opinion (Lange, p.53).

The Essene sect was commonly known for the ability to read the calendar. The calendar reads according to the solar system, which takes 364 days a year. Essene’s was different from the Jewish calendar, which was lunar and consisted of 354 days. According to history, the sectarian timeline is not well definite for its achievements. Also, the Jewish calendar has not been clear with the astronomical structure of the time. According to the sectarian schedule, Wednesday referred to the day God made the luminaries. There was a separatist endurance of the Essenes for two centuries. All this time, Essenes inhabited a common and analysis way of life that entailed work and prayers (Lange, p. 53). The contemporaneous writes were responsible for the discussion of various principles of the Essene’s beliefs and how they lived. The scrolls had different messages and they are undoubtedly an electric collection because they are neither sectarian nor inscribed in the Dead Sea. Admittedly, the manuscripts could be the remainders of the library of Jerusalem Temple. There is also an assessment of different texts of the writings of Jesus Christ’s flowers by various scholars (Roitman, p.90).

Moreover, the biblical manuscripts are of no doubt the earliest copies to be discovered as of these texts. The Biblical books are put in one collection, and some books have more prints compared to others with the same message but different stories. The biblical scrolls have contributed highly to the reconstruction of the Old Testament through different new readings. It is also important to note that the Bible manuscripts inclusive of the parchment of Leviticus are confined not in the Jewish script but in the early paleo which is a Hebrew script (Charlesworth p. 29). Most of the apocryphal texts are kept in a Qumran. Christian Churches did also require Qumran to keep their Aramaic and Hebrew versions. The sectarian writings in the Qumran were most unique and special in some way. The Damascus document did give clear recording of documents especially before the discovery of the Dead Sea area. The Biblical remarks are evident especially in the Qumran and they did occur from the sect’s eschatological theory. Due to references needed currently and in the future the sect did scan the scripture to enable easy accessibility.

In conclusion, the Dead Sea scroll is important in today’s society, it has improved our understanding of ancient Jewish history. Our history helps us to understand our culture and where to want to head soon. The Dead Sea scrolls are so elaborate that the scholars need to find a way to break down the study to ensure interest and curiosity still thrives in researchers. As a researcher during the study, it is vital to comprehend the manuscripts and the era that it got established (Charlesworth. P. 29).