AL QUMRAN: The Dead Sea Scroll and Christianity .
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Professor Peter Flint, a leading expert on the Qumran Isaiah Scroll, found that the text contains a new and important theological, many would say messianic, reading later in the 53rd chapter.
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Professor William Hugh Brownlee, a Hebrew expert and Dead Sea Scroll scholar, also found that the wording "the God of all the earth will he be called" is appropriate immediately before the 'Great Servant Song' of Isaiah 52:13-53:12.
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Professor Edward Kutcher of Hebrew University also found an alteration in the text that sheds a new light on the "servant." These alterations represent deliberate alteration of the Hebrew text in order to produce the desired messianic interpretations.
Scholars have debated the dating of the Dead Sea Scrolls, but all agree that they are B.C or really A.D. Isaiah's prophecy, from Isaiah 52:13 through Chapter 53, deals with the servant's martyrdom and ultimate triumph,
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which is represented in Jewish Passover tradition as the symbolic Passover lamb. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D., the Seder changed from being a celebration of sacrifice to a celebration of the Exodus event and the redemption it symbolized.
There are many interesting documentaries of the βDead Sea Scrollβ you will find on YouTube particularly the apocalyptic prophecies; a battle between the sons of light and the sons of darkness.
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My Book Reading Playlist regarding TOPIC in detail - youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcLZ6DYElaA1KefZ1eLjoPezzPXCDYhb