Part I—The Complex History of the Dead Sea Scrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Part II—What Do the Scrolls Tell Us about Christianity?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Part III—What Do the Scrolls Tell Us about the Hebrew Bible? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Part IV—What Do the Scrolls Tell Us about Early Judaism? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Bonus Material—Spotlight on Non-Biblical Scrolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Photo Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Dead Sea Scrolls have been called the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century. And they are. Everybody knows of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I was once in a taxi cab in Kansas City and the driver had no idea that I was in any way connected with the Scrolls, and he raised the subject. Although everyone knows of the Dead Sea Scrolls, almost no one can tell you what they say. What do they really tell us? What do we know that we didn’t know before? That’s the question that I’m going to try to answer. In fact, I’m going to try to answer three questions: 1. What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the development of Early Christianity? 2. What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the Hebrew Bible? 3. What do the Dead Sea Scrolls tell us about the history of Judaism? But before I do that, I would like take a trip with you to the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, on the shores of the Dead Sea in the Judean Desert.