what are the dead sea scrolls?

>>1496598

One of the esoteric branches of Christianity that was purged at Nicea in favor of simplistic literalism.

>>1496614
Dead Sea Scrolls, not Nag Hammadhi, buddy.

OP, the Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of texts found at a pottery factory where they were hidden, perhaps around the time of the Roman-Jewish war in the 70s. The Catholic scholars who inspected them initially thought they must be the work of a monastic order having mistaken the pottery factory they were discovered in as some sort of religious settlement), and determined that it must tbe the writings of the Essenes, a small apocalyptic religious group among the Jews at that time. In all likelihood, the find is probably more interesting than that, namely, it's probably the library of a private man in Jerusalem at that time, with a wide swath of interests, since the texts seem to represent all different manner of viewpoints. The biblical texts found also show the Masoretic text that the Old Testament is based on is largely good, with minor variations.

>>1496598
oh look, an ancient document with clear fucking handwriting, not chicken scratch

>>1496676
okay thank you

Scripture and literature written by the Essenes (Apocalyptic Jewish sect living in the desert) and stored in a cave before dying in a doomed rebellion against Rome

A manual on how yo operate the eva.

Its about how Jesus was a mushroom and his following was a mushroom sex cult.

>>1496676
>it's probably the library of a private man in Jerusalem at that time, with a wide swath of interests, since the texts seem to represent all different manner of viewpoints.

yay, my future self will travel back in time then mysteriously disappear while compiling texts to bring back to the people of the present!

>>1496676
>The biblical texts found also show the Masoretic text that the Old Testament is based on is largely good, with minor variations
some of those minor variations were pretty damn interesting. for instance in Deuteronomy the Masoretic text has the nations divided according to the number of the sons of Israel but in the Dead Sea Scrolls it's according to the number of the sons of El

>>1496598
A description of the final battle between good and evil. It is full of details like the color and size of the flags and "shields of polished bronze" and "seventy men one behind the other in lines of seven", supposedly some kind of encryption

Satanic hoax

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>>1499184
more on this?