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[[Image:Dead Sea Scrolls.jpg|thumb|Dead Sea Scrolls]]

[[Image:Dead Sea Scrolls.jpg|thumb|Dead Sea Scrolls]]

The '''Dead Sea scrolls''' include several of the oldest extant manuscripts of the [[Old Testament]], found in a remarkable modern discovery near the [[Dead Sea]] in [[Israel]]. This discovery proved the accuracy of the copying and preservation of [[Scriptures]] over thousands of years, because the ancient contents of these scrolls are virtually identical to the modern content today.  In addition, these scrolls and fragments -- totaling nearly a thousand -- are an important source of information about the [[Holy Land]] in the first century after [[Jesus Christ]]'s ministry on earth.

The '''Dead Sea scrolls''' include several of the oldest extant manuscripts of the [[Old Testament]], found in a remarkable modern discovery near the [[Dead Sea]] in [[Israel]]. This discovery proved the accuracy of the copying and preservation of [[Scriptures]] over thousands of years, because the ancient contents of these scrolls are virtually identical to the modern content today.  In addition, these scrolls and fragments -- totaling nearly a thousand -- are an important source of information about the [[Holy Land]] in the first century after [[Jesus Christ]]'s ministry on earth.  '''''These Dead Sea Scrolls predate prior oldest complete copies of the [[Old Testament]] by a millennium, and yet confirm every detail perfectly'''''.

A surprising amount of [[Greek]] in the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests that it was more commonly used by [[Jesus]] and his [[Apostles]] than previously thought:

A surprising amount of [[Greek]] in the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests that it was more commonly used by [[Jesus]] and his [[Apostles]] than previously thought: