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BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGYAll Scripture is God-breathed and is
useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly
equipped for every good work.2 Timothy 3:16-17
Biblical Backgrounds
Terms
Archeology: the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains
Dead Sea Scrolls
Where: Qumran, Judean desert = ____________
When: ____________ How Many: ______
Documents Who: library of first-
century Jews
West Bank 1947 -
1948931
Dead Sea Scrolls
Varying dates from ________________ What’s included:
Every book of the Bible except Esther Commentaries Marriage Contracts Deeds of Sale Calendars Rules for Religious Rituals Copper Scroll
300BC – 40AD
How Were They Discovered?
______: Shepherds settled in the land between Bethlehem and The Dead Sea
______: Teenager found Cave 1
Cave 1 yielded __ Scrolls and were sold for _____ to a local dealer
1946
1947
7$97
How Were They Discovered?
Surveys were done and more research More caves were found Cave __ is one of the largest and almost
the most difficult to get to Yielded ________ fragments Arab-Israeli War in _______
4
15,000 194
8
Qumran Ancient ruins of buildings Found kilns to fire pottery Deposits of _______________ and _________animal
bonespottery
What do the scrolls say?
Before the scrolls the oldest text:_________________ - _________________
Skeptics claim transmission errors Cave 1: Entire copy of the _______________
95% identical 5% differences
Slips of pen Spelling alterations
Masorectic Text
Ben Asher Codex
Book of Isaiah
God Wrote A Book
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
God Wrote A Book