Qumran

The site of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea was directly behind me as I took this photo. The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest known manuscripts of several writings. Some of them date back to the 3rd century BC. A major significance is that the book of Isaiah was found in the first cave (pictured here). That is, the ENTIRE book of Isaiah containing all 66 chapters on a single scroll, a find that helps to counter critics that have claimed for the last two thousand years that Isaiah was actually three books that were later combined, and could not have all been written by Isaiah.