08-17-2004, 12:17 PM
Greetings Gentlemen,
There is a DSS scroll containing the text Dean refers to; it is not an Isaiah scroll, however. The two Isaiah DSS we have are dated 100 B.C. ; they are the oldest known scrolls of the Old Testament extant; LXX mss. go back to the 4th century AD. Other Hebrew mss. go back perhaps to the third cent. AD -(Aleppo codex ?).
The Isaiah scrolls have the same text as the Massoretic all the way through Isaiah, and Isa. 61:1 has the same reading as we have in our Hebrew Bibles today.
Please see Fred Moeller's site to view The Great Isaiah Scroll in its entirety and a translation & commentary with line by line description and notes. It is also available on CD
for $19.95 with tons of additional documents and other DSS material
go to:
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Shlama w'burkhtha,
Dave B
There is a DSS scroll containing the text Dean refers to; it is not an Isaiah scroll, however. The two Isaiah DSS we have are dated 100 B.C. ; they are the oldest known scrolls of the Old Testament extant; LXX mss. go back to the 4th century AD. Other Hebrew mss. go back perhaps to the third cent. AD -(Aleppo codex ?).
The Isaiah scrolls have the same text as the Massoretic all the way through Isaiah, and Isa. 61:1 has the same reading as we have in our Hebrew Bibles today.
Please see Fred Moeller's site to view The Great Isaiah Scroll in its entirety and a translation & commentary with line by line description and notes. It is also available on CD
for $19.95 with tons of additional documents and other DSS material
go to:
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Shlama w'burkhtha,
Dave B