Participants’ Queries
- Where is Qumran?
- What is Qumran like today?
- How is Qumran used today?
- Who left the scrolls ther and why?
- How do we know how old the Dead Sea Scrolls are?
- Why were there so many scrolls in the first place and how many more were there preserved for so long?
- What is martyrdom?
- What is on the scrolls?
- Has anyone deciphered the scrolls?
- Who discovered the manuscripts in the Judean desert?
- Why did they choose to put the scrolls where they were left?
- How significant are they?
- Who discovered the manuscripts in the Judean desert?
- Do the scrolls have significance to other cultures?
- What is the most common theme in the Hebrew Bible?
- What other architecture did Bartos and Kiesler (who designed the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem) create?
- How long did it take to copy down the Hebrew Bible?
- Why did they put scrolls in caves?
- Were these scrolls meant to be found or did these people think they were private (like notes in the Western Wall)?
- Why were people so competitive about Jewish observance if they all had the same goals?
- Why is this related to pottery?
- What’s the Torah’s purpose?
- Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so important to people of all religions?
- Who wrote the Dead Sea Scroll?
- What are the Dead Sea Scrolls made of?
- How many scrolls are there?
- Why were there so many scrolls?
- Why did they add more scrolls?
- How did they find all of them?
- Are there more scrolls?
- Why don’t we modernize the copying of the Torah?
- Were the jars sealed?
- What do the scrolls say?
- What language were the scrolls in?
- What were the scrolls made of?
- What pen was used?
- How much work did it take them to make such scrolls?
- Were the scrolls found by accident or were people looking for them?
