具有相似重要性的古代文献(8)

Both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the writing found in Ireland are important finds. First, they are some of the oldest copies of the Old Testament Bible.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were written in the second century! And second, the words and meaning are almost exactly the same as later copies of the Old Testament.

For example, scientists compared two copies of the book of Isaiah. They compared the Dead Sea Scrolls to a later copy of the Old Testament called the Masoretic Text.

This copy belonged to a group called the Masoretes. They had copied the Old Testament a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls.