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Dead Sea Scrolls and the MT

  • The texts from Qumran proved to be word-for-word identical to the standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text. The 5 percent of variation consisted primarily of obvious slips of the pen and spelling alterations.
  • More importantly, there were no major doctrinal differences between the accepted and Qumran texts.

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