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Dead Sea Scrolls 2/24/94
-Previously thought that there was a single Hebrew prototype
text, however, what has emerged is a picture of
much greater variety. Jews in the late 2md Temple period
respected different versions of ancient books
local texts. 1) Babylon - Hebrew Bible today
Tetragrammaton '' or [?] 2) Palestinian - Samaritan Bible (contains
only the 5 books of Moses)
3) Egyptian - from which the Septuegint
Bible was made
- about 170 200 of the scrolls are biblical
- all the Books of the Hebrew Bible except the Book of Esther
- entire Book of Isaiah - only complete scroll.
- written in Hebrew, Aramaic + Greek + on leather
parchment + papyrus
- Paleo-Hebrew till 6th C BCE - Samaritan script - an alphabet directly descended from Paleo-Hebrew
Rustic
Jewish book hands Herodian period
- apocryphal works - omitted from the Hebrew Bible
but included in Protestant + Catholic canons
- pseydoepigraphical - purported to have authored by
Biblical figures.
- 1st Temple - built964-928 BCE (Solomon) - destroyed by
Nebuchadnazzar in 586. (II Kings 24-25.)
2nd Temple - bilt 538-515 BCE - "Wailing Wall"
Herod's time - renouations

Jersualem sacked twice by the Roman - in 70 CE
when the 2nd temple was destroyed + in 135 CE
when the Jews were again driven from the city.
Pharisees - precursor of modern day Judiasm, represented
the belief of most ordinary Jews - majority party by
the 1st C. C.E.
Eusebius related the story of Origen, who for his ed. of the Hebrew
scriptures consulted scrolls that had been found in caves near Jericho in the 1st half of the 3rd C. C.E.