Did the Dead Sea Scrolls Change the Bible? Question: Did the Dead Sea Scrolls change our ideas of the Old Testament? Answer: It just verified Isaiah. The community at Qumran had an interesting concept that Christ, the Redeemer, was with them all the time. Of course, this was hundreds of years before the time of His advent. The Qumran community based some of its ideas on the philosophy of the Essene school at En Gedi, which was set up by Isaiah, but they were not moving in the same direction as the Essenes. So we have the writings of Isaiah being given entirely different interpretations of how they should be applied to one’s life. (10-1973)
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