Dead Sea Scroll

Dead Sea Scrolls is an invaluable findings. A relic over two thousand years which contains many important historical documents (especially the story of the days of the Prophet). Manuscript also contains a secret code that has not been solved completely.

Scientists previously have found evidence of multiple copies of the book of Hebrewlanguage Jew which wrote in the post-AD (approximately 1,300 years ago).

But the Dead Sea Scrolls by carbon tests conducted by experts from Chicago, USA, showed the material to be used as a medium of writing the manuscript was inferred from the 200's BC.

The researchers found that the manuscript has not been identified among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The text that was considered as an unreadable Scrolls Monastery (Temple Scroll), which contains the rules and laws in the Pentateuch known as part of the first five books in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.

These include the Book of Discipline Community Rule that describes how the community was housed in the Qumran organized spiritual life. Then there's the part that elaborated on the Road Safety (The Way) and the battle between the Son of Light (Son of Light) fight the Darkness Son (Son of Darkness), which contains a detailed plan of is anticipated final battle of the Qumran community.

Other Scrolls contain about a variety of prayers, hymns, commentaries on parts of the Bible, legends, prophecies, reliji arguments, and the unknown stories which relate to the characters listed in the Hebrew Bible.

Khirbet Qumran

Archeologists found a monastery site within approximately 540 meters from the hole the first cave discovered Dead Sea Scrolls. They identified it as the Monastery of Khirbet Qumran.

Khirbet Qumran community is a very strict sect is follows the teachings of the prophet in the days before Jesus Christ. They tend to isolate themselves from social life and work on the content of the books of the Old Testament, life with devotion to his sect, chanting prayers, worship and copying old books.

Dead Sea Scrolls

At the site of this monastery found objects related to writing. Were found two pieces of the ink pot, a stylus (a kind of ancient writing instruments pens are made from pieces of bone, stone, or special materials), and a jar similar to jars found in the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls storage.

Based on the research and laboratory testing, these ancient objects made ​​around the year 68 AD. In one of the parchment manuscript was written that the Legion of the Roman Empire controlled the area west of the Dead Sea (Palestine and Israel today). The priests at the abbey had to hide some text into the cave on the banks of the Dead Sea.

Most of the documents written in Hebrew (Hebrew-Jewish) and some even disguised as a small document to the size of a postage stamp. Then there's also is script written in Ancient Greek (Septuagint).

The findings in this Qumran monastery and territory there are about 500-'s books, including the Old Testament. But not clear whether they relate to the sect of Essenes, the ancient Jews, and followers of Jesus Christ (Christian). All still remains a mystery.