A History of Hebrew Part 19_ The Dead Sea Scrolls

Between 1947 and 1956, ancient scrolls and fragments of the Hebrew Bible were discovered in caves near the Dead Sea dating to the 1st C. BCE and the 1st C. CE.

The manuscripts discovered in the Dead Sea Caves include: All of the Canonical Books of the Hebrew Bible with the exception of the book of Esther. Canonical Books such as Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit and Sirach as well as Psalms that are not part of the 150 Psalms in the Canonical Bible. And Sectarian Books such as , the Community Rule, the War Scroll, the Damascus Document and Peshers, which are commentaries on books of the Bible.

There are several different theories on the origin of these texts.