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In the mid-20th century, one of the most crucial religious discoveries of all time was manufactured in a series of caves close to the Deceased Sea, which possessed concealed remnants of almost 1,000 text messages, some of that were contained in the Hebrew Bible among others that have been extra-biblical. In addition to being the oldest surviving copies of such documents, the combination of languages and various kinds of documents helped reveal the people in the region at the time, making the Deceased Sea Scrolls quite crucial to the world's major religions. The impact these scrolls experienced on the domains of biblical studies and the history of Second Temple Judaism can scarcely be overstated. As The Oxford Associate to Archaeology put it, "The biblical manuscripts from Qumran, such as at least fragments out of every e book of the Old Testament, except perhaps for the Booklet of Esther, provide a far older combination portion of scriptural tradition than that available to scholars before. While some of the Qumran biblical manuscripts are almost indistinguishable to the Masoretic, or traditional, Hebrew words of the Old Testament, some manuscripts of the books of Exodus and Samuel within cave four display dramatic dissimilarities in both language and content. In their astonishing range of textual variations, the Qumran biblical discoveries have prompted scholars to reconsider the once-accepted ideas of the development of the modern biblical words from only three manuscript people: the Masoretic words, the Hebrew original of the Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch."
