jan 1, 1947 - The dead sea scrolls-written 250BC-68AD Discovered in1947AD - 1956AD The dead sea scolls were found by a shephered exploring cases close to the shore of the dead sea in 1947, among the hundreds of manuscripts was a complete scroll of the book of Isiah in the Old Testament. Up to that time, skeptics had said that we could not have an accurate translation of the bibledue to the thousand of years of copying by hand. They believed canges from the orginals must haveoccured over thousand of years.
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jan 1, 1947
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