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Did You Know?Archaeology

The Dead Sea Scrolls Pushed Bible Manuscripts Back 1,000 Years

Before 1947, the oldest known Hebrew Old Testament manuscript dated to around AD 1000. Then a Bedouin shepherd boy threw a stone into a cave at Qumran and heard a clay pot shatter. Inside were scrolls 1,000 years older. The Isaiah Scroll, dating to roughly 100 BC, is almost word-for-word identical to modern translations — proving the text had been copied with extraordinary accuracy across a millennium.

Isaiah 40:8

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