Hymns Scroll Analysis

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E.L Sukenik published the Hymns Scroll (The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem) in 1954-5. Between 1946 and 1956 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds and a team of archaeologists. The scrolls contained a series of eleven caves as were found around the site known as Wadi Qumran near the Dead Sea of the Jordan River and it was written in biblical Hebrew. It 's also had over 900 different texts written Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. The early Christianity were using the Dead Sea Scroll as their bible because it represented a religious writings as well as biblical texts.
Biblical Psalms are very similar to the poems in the Scroll. The Hymns of Thanksgiving were individual prayers and doctrinal detail. Salvation
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You believed that everything is in God hand and you put him as a king in your whole life until you time. You let God the honliness to control of your life. You would actually feel complete only when you talk to him in the morning. You can 't even go a day without talking to him. That 's how I understood this poem because I had experienced it before.
I think the Thanksgiving Hymns were also the words of God because when I read it I felt like there were power in those words, The meanings of the word are very deep and each sentence contained some sort of ancient word. If you read it carefully, you will find peace in those poems. Each poem had their own struggle and how God helped each person with different problems.
For the individual prayers it really show the sorrow in that person life as well as having God to protected them. In other parts of the poem some people were lacking of knowledge and wisdom but with out everything turned out to be possible in their life. God is the king of this world and nobody can against him. Most people in the poem were very happy because they have learned on God truth and knew his words. God often had mercy on them as well as forgiven their sin. God provided good foods and answered their prayers when they really believed in them. They didn 't forget about God good deeds but always praised him for helping them in a way that they couldn 't understand. For most of the people God is good and all the time God is

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