5 They represent the oldest version of the Old Testament in existence. They contain every book of the Old Testament, with the exception of Esther. The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of, among other things, 225 Old Testament manuscripts, about 215 of which were discovered in 11 caves at Khirbet Qumran near the Dead Sea in Israel the other 10 were found nearby at Wadi Murabba ‘at, Nahal Hever, and Masada.
So, let’s take a quick look at these two ancient sources, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the documents found at Nag Hammadi, and see what they do (or do not) prove about the New Testament record on the life of Christ. Teabing expounds that these two sets of ancient documents “highlight glaring historical discrepancies and fabrications, clearly confirming that the modern Bible was compiled and edited by men who possessed a political agenda-to promote the divinity of the man Jesus Christ and use His influence to solidify their own power base.” 3 Troublingly, they do not match up with the gospels in the Bible.” 2Īh yes, but there is even nastier intrigue afoot. “These are photocopies of the Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea Scrolls, which I mentioned earlier,” Teabing said. 1 These are:(1) that the Dead Sea Scrolls are part of the “earliest Christian records” and (2) that the ancient, heretical documents found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, are a more faithful historical record of Jesus than the New Testament Gospels.Īs to the first point, the “seer” of Brown’s book, a character named Sir Leigh Teabing, solemnly opines, I will address only two of the vacuous speculations passed on to us from the Da Vinci effect (my phrase, for want of a better one). Happily, a number of credible books have been published, exposing the novel’s multiple inaccuracies and myths parading as fact. The novel contends, among other things, that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and bore His children.īecause Brown’s fiction work not only deals directly with the life of Christ and the validity of the New Testament, but also creates a misleading aura of factuality, it needs to be addressed.
Nag hammadi and dead sea scrolls movie#
Film director Ron Howard and megastar Tom Hanks are teaming up for the movie version, set for release in May. It has been on The New York Times Best Seller list since its release in 2003 and has been a bestseller in some 150 countries.
With the exception of perhaps a handful of Tibetan monks living in the shadows of the Himalayan mountains or the isolated tribal groups of South America, it is hard to imagine people who have not heard something about Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code. Scrolls, Souls, and the ‘Da Vinci Effect’
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