Isaiah

[Beowulf]

Can we agree Isaiah was a real fellow by evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in particular the Great Isaiah Scoll?

 

[Micaiah]

No doubt in my mind that Isaiah was real. What is the story behind the dead sea scrolls.

 

[Beowulf]

http://religion.rutgers.edu/iho/dss.html

 

[gluadys]

Can we agree Isaiah was a real fellow by evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls, in particular the Great Isaiah Scoll?

Which Isaiah? Linguistic analysis suggests there were three of them.

 

[Beowulf]

Isaiah son of Amoz

http://www.bible-history.com/quotes/charles_f_pfeiffer_2.html

"The Isaiah scrolls were the first Biblical texts found, and the first to receive serious study. There is no hint in either of these scrolls of a "deutero-" or "trito-Isaiah," to use the language of modern scholarship. The advocate of two or three "Isaiah's" may suggest that the book was put in its present form prior to the writing of the Qumran manuscripts, but the fact remains that our oldest pre-Christian manuscripts bear witness to the text substantially as we have it in our printed Hebrew Bibles."

 

[Dark_Lite]

Speaking of the Dead Sea Scrolls...

Anyone want to guess how the age of them was determined?

 

[Beowulf]

Speaking of the Dead Sea Scrolls...

Anyone want to guess how the age of them was determined?

Then there's agreement on age?

 

[Vance]

Yes, there was indeed an historical Isaiah.

 

[gluadys]

No reason to doubt the historicity of any of the Isaiahs. Nor to doubt that the first was Isaiah son of Amoz who lived in Jerusalem during the time stated at the beginning of the book.

The other two writers, were, of course, real. We just don't know their real names.

 

[chanis]

the scrolls are said to be dated back before the time of Christ around the 3rd century bc which makes them super old...If you have never read the Case for Christ I reccomend you reading it, it has some real cool information regarding the dead sea scrolls...
check out this website...
www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html

 

[tryptophan]

Yup. Isaiah was a real person.

 

[Euryale]

the scrolls are said to be dated back before the time of Christ around the 3rd century bc which makes them super old...If you have never read the Case for Christ I reccomend you reading it, it has some real cool information regarding the dead sea scrolls...
check out this website...
www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html

You might want to revise that date. The University of Arizona did most of the dating of scroll fragments and did not get dates anywhere near that old. They got dates between 150 BC and 100 AD for different scrolls.

 

[StarSapphire]

You might want to revise that date. The University of Arizona did most of the dating of scroll fragments and did not get dates anywhere near that old. They got dates between 150 BC and 100 AD for different scrolls.

Except for the scroll for Isaiah: The UA team radiocarbon dated the famous Book of Isaiah scroll at between 335 BCE and 122 BCE.

 

[Didaskomenos]

Except for the scroll for Isaiah: The UA team radiocarbon dated the famous Book of Isaiah scroll at between 335 BCE and 122 BCE.

Uh-oh! She just said the "r" word! Radiocarbon dating doesn't tell YEC's anything. The parchment was probably still alive when they got that old reading.