Dead Sea Scrolls Lecture 2

Dr. Mark Schuler, professor of theology and Greek at Concordia, delves into the place where the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. About one mile west of the Dead Sea and nine miles south of Jericho is Khirbet Qumran, ruins and a cemetery located on a low plateau between the rock cliff and the plain; the first scrolls were discovered in a cave half a mile north of this site. Was G. Lankester Harding correct when he wrote in 1952, "It would appear, then, that the people who lived at Khirbet Qumran deposited the scrolls in the cave, probably about A.D. 70"? Are the ruins a monastic site of the community written about in the Scrolls? If so, what does archaeology tell us about the community and its relation to the Scrolls? For more information visit: http://www.csp.edu/News/DeadSeaScroll...