manuscripts were all found in the dead sea scrolls regarding works later included the hebrew bible canon.
what was all found in the dead sea scrolls regarding works later included the hebrew bible canon?
manuscripts
the dead sea scrolls (also qumran caves scrolls) are ancient jewish religious manuscripts found in the qumran caves in the judaean desert, near ein feshkha on the northern shore of the dead sea. scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries bce and the first century ce. the texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the hebrew bible canon, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late second temple judaism. almost all of the dead sea scrolls collection is currently under the ownership of the government of the state of israel, and housed in the shrine of the book on the grounds of the israel museum.
dead sea scrolls
the theory that there was a closed hebrew canon of second temple judaism was further challenged by the textual variants found in the dead sea scrolls. michael barber writes, "up until recently it was assumed that “apocryphal” additions found in the books of the lxx represented later augmentations in the greek to the hebrew texts. in connection with this, the masoretic text (mt) established by the rabbis in the medieval period has been accepted as the faithful witness to the hebrew bible of the 1st century. yet, this presupposition is now being challenged in light of the dead sea scrolls."
development of the hebrew bible canon