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