What are the Dead Sea Scrolls, what do they contain, and what is their significance?
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What everyone else said — but they’re also significant for helping establish historic timelines. I started to write this but wanted to fact check myself beforehand, so it’s probably easier to just share what Britannica had to say;
“Study of the scrolls has enabled scholars to push back the date of a stabilized Hebrew Bible to no later than 70 CE, to help reconstruct the history of Palestine from the 4th century BCE to 135 CE, and to cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of rabbinic Judaism and on the relationship between early Christian and Jewish religious traditions.”
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