New Testament Among Dead Sea Scrolls? - Lester L Grabbe - June 1975

Lester L Grabbe

Cave Number 7 near Kirbet Qumran did not seem nearly so rewarding as some of the others. Other caves, such as Cave 1 and Cave 11, had yielded some quite lengthy fragments of biblical and extra-biblical writings. These fragments, making up the so-called "Dead Sea Scrolls," included a great deal of material from the Old Testament. Cave 1, as a prime example, had yielded an almost complete scroll of the book of Isaiah. Cave 7 (abbreviated 7Q by scholars), however, contained only papyrus fragments, most of which had no more than a few Greek letters on them. It was certainly not the most promising find. Yet now some of these scraps of decayed papyrus have made world headlines as possibly the oldest remains of the New Testament in existence! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library