[sevenbak]

The Dead Sea scrolls were buried as though they were dead persons. The “Scriptures” that are among the Dead Sea Scrolls were ones with scribal errors serious enough to warrant their being buried and not used.,p>

What is your basis for this theory?

[restornu]

You know that is a cool site I bookmarket Enoch yesterday and the next day it was gone!

[John Leland 1789]

I am abroad and not with access to my library or my college/seminary notes. I am, however, attempting to retrieve some of the documentation through a few web sites to which some good scholars do contribute.

It was the late 1970s when, in Bible college and seminary, we sat through lectures from at least two older Jewish-Christian scholars (that is, they had been raised and educated in Judaism and had met their Messiah, Jesus Christ, later) who spoke on the subject of how manuscripts were so meticulously copied by scribes before there were any printing presses. These lecturers focused on the rules and regulations binding on Old Testament scribes before Christ’s day. The rules were very strict.

These men spoke of how unintentional errors were corrected when copying manuscripts. According to those old Jewish men, when certain errors were made that could not be corrected, that manuscript was given a ceremonial burial as if people were being buried. The manuscript was, in affect, declared to be dead.

Those men both said that the manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, found in a BURIAL place, would be examples of these. They are not useless to history or archeology, but they should not be used as a sure authority for deciding the authenticity or accuracy of any given passage of Scripture, because the likelihood of error in them is great.

The Jews of Jesus’ day, I believe, had preserved copies of the original books of the Hebrew Bible. Jesus read them in the synagogues and quoted from them without any criticism of them or attempt to correct any of them. And they were, in fact, HIS words.