Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
“The word of God, for: “All flesh is like grass, and all the glory like the flower of the field; the grass withers, and the flower wilts, but the word of the Lord remains forever'”—1 Peter 1:23-25 New American Bible
The Dead Sea Scrolls provide the oldest existing copies of the Old Testament, proving the text was accurately preserved. Before this discovery, the earliest complete Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts were from the 10th century CE. The scrolls contain texts from the third century BCE through the first century CE. By comparing them with modern Bibles, scholars confirmed that the Old Testament text was faithfully transmitted over the centuries with remarkable consistency.
