The Dead Sea Scrolls

Authors

Alfred von Rohr Sauer, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

4-1-1967

Document Type

Article

Keywords

dead sea scrolls, qumran, isaiah, manuscript, christian, essenes, sommer, hebrew

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

Quite apart from the contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the history of their discovery and the account of what has happened to them in the meantime has proved to be a subject as fascinating as some of our bestselling books of fiction. The Qumran scrolls are to the 20th century what Tischendorfs discovery of the Codex Sinaiticus was to the 19th (Kraeling). Albright. called the scrolls "the greatest manuscript discovery of modem times." For Edmund Wilson the scrolls are "the most valuable manuscript find since the Renaissance."

Disciplines

History of Christianity

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Sauer, Alfred von Rohr (1967) "The Dead Sea Scrolls," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 38, Article 29.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol38/iss1/29