The Dead Sea Scrolls. What do they say? Why should we care? Featuring Dr. Jeremy Lyon.

In the 1940s, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the desert of Qumran. Ever since, scholars have studied these scrolls in great detail. This episode features Dr. Jeremy Lyon who has published works on the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this episode we discuss the discovery, the importance, and the controversies surrounding the scrolls.
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About our Guest:

Dr. Jeremy Lyon is Associate Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Truett McConnel University in Cleveland, GA. He has written two books on the Dead Sea Scrolls.

📕Find his books on Amazon:
The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls
https://shorturl.at/bFILW
Qumran Interpretation of the Genesis Flood
https://shorturl.at/nuX13

📕Other manuscripts :
Codex Vaticanus-a mid 4th century manuscript
https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209

Cairo Geniza- medieval Jewish manuscripts
https://shorturl.at/anTXY

Link to Dead Sea Scrolls Online -This site will point you to all the collections of the digital versions of the Dead Sea Scrolls
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/resources/DSS_online.shtml

Aleppo codex-Written down by Masoretic scribes around 930 AD and housed in Aleppo for 500 years.
https://archive.org/details/Aleppo_Codex/mode/2up

The Leningrad Codex – The most complete text of the Hebrew Bible preserved in the National Library of Russia.
https://archive.org/details/Leningrad_Codex

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00:00:11 Introduction
00:04:16 Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
00:20:37 Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls
00:32:11 How to date the scrolls
00:36:25 What is paleography
00:37:33 Condition of the scrolls
00:44:11 What about Biblical Text
01:09:00 Conspiracy Theories
01:23:00 We need a Part 2