Why there are so many denominations

[Minimalist]

How old are the scrolls? Between 408 and 44 BCE.

Even Jews understand that the DSS were written between the mid 2d century BCE ( c 140 or so) and 70 AD. They thus post date the Septuagint by a century or more and are of uncertain authorship based on recent scholarship.

Only xtian assholes try to shoehorn them back to a time prior to the Hasmonean period.

Thanks for confirming for me that you are, in fact, one of those assholes.


For the people who are interested in reality around here.

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah

The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947. It is the largest (734 cm) and best preserved of all the biblical scrolls, and the only one that is almost complete. The 54 columns contain all 66 chapters of the Hebrew version of the biblical Book of Isaiah. Dating from ca. 125 BCE, it is also one of the oldest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some one thousand years older than the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible known to us before the scrolls' discovery.

The version of the text is generally in agreement with the Masoretic or traditional version codified in medieval codices, such as the Aleppo Codex, but it contains many variant readings, alternative spellings, scribal errors, and corrections. Unlike most of the biblical scrolls from Qumran, it exhibits a very full orthography (spelling), revealing how Hebrew was pronounced in the Second Temple Period. Around twenty additional copies of the Book of Isaiah were also found at Qumran (one more copy was discovered further south at Wadi Muraba'at),