25
Jul
2018
Ancient texts like the Dead Sea Scrolls are often fragments, requiring reconstruction and implying textual fallibility.
But in terms of the Dead Sea Scrolls, they found all those scrolls at Qumran and they tried to put them together as best as they could. But even if you look at any scholarly text about the Dead Sea Scrolls, you're going to have caveats like a lot of this is missing. Right. And that's the case for a lot of fucking books. There's a lot of books in the Bible that have had to be reconstructed and have been over time. So to me, when you have that much and you understand that much, you kind of have to accept fallibility in the text.