Dea Sea Scrolls Imperfection

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to enlighten others with the hardships that are faced, even now, by the scribes who wrote them. In viewing the living conditions during the time that the scrolls were written and then comparing the conditions to those of today, one will have a much deeper understanding of what “hardship” means in the scribal world. Based on this comparison and a near-complete list of typical errors that plague current and ancient authors, one will not only see the types of difficulties involved with replication, but will also realize through doubt and reason that using these scrolls as a source of biblical facts is a hazardous idea.
A scribe’s task may seem easy to some, yet when one actually takes a look at the detail and specificity that is put into their work, one can see that a scribe’s job is probably just as easy as it is for a two-year old to color within the lines of a picture in their coloring book. Today, with the use of modern technology and well trained professionals, it would be safe ...

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today had to have been done long ago, without the comfort of technology as we now know it.
It’s a safe bet to say that the chairs that we sit on during a normal day are by far more comfortable than beds used by the princes of old. The tables from those ancient times were most likely not made with the same amount of care and perfection as they are today. Tables were made of stone and raw wood. How hard it must have been to get a tabletop to be flat, without bumps and without the sloping and drooping action of the middle portion. And how hard it must have been to write on such facilities. But then the fact that scribes used to sit on the floor and copy scrolls, crouching over a writing ...

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