[Plutarch]

...they could prove as pivotal as the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.

When did the Dead Sea Scrolls become pivotal? They caused a lot more excitement when they were found than they did when they were decades later translated.

[verga]

When did the Dead Sea Scrolls become pivotal? They caused a lot more excitement when they were found than they did when they were decades later translated.

They helped to verify that a number of OT books removed for the KJV were actually written in Hebrew, which was one of the complaints that the 'Council" of Jamnia had about some of them.