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O.T. Ancient Manuscripts

On Church History

The Ezekiel Tablets

Found in the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel in Kafr Al-Kafil in Iraq. These are now housed in the institute of Yad Ben Zvi in Jerusalem Israel.
These 66 marble and black basalt tablets carved in bas-relief.

The Talmud says the original book of Ezekiel was buried with the Prophet in his tomb and left there to be reveled in the last days.

Ezekiel 1:2 is shown here. It reads Jehoiachin instead of king Jehoiachin. This is one of the few textual differences. None of these differences changes the message of the prophet, but instead shows a very early date of writing. The book itself is almost word perfect with the one we have today.

Notice the Aramaic script.
This script started being used when the Jews were taken to Babylon and was made the official Hebrew script by Ezra according to the Talmud.
Qumran

This is were the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.
The scroll of Isaiah.

Discovered in the cave ?? of Qumran
It dates from 300 BC.
This is a fragment of Hosea 2:8-14
Discovered in the cave 4 of Qumran