Book Minute: The Great Isaiah Scroll

Under lock and key for over 40 years, the Great Isaiah Scroll was stored underground in Jerusalem until being displayed in 2008 for just a few months.
In 1947, seven scrolls were found in caves at Qumran, the “original” Dead Sea Scrolls. They’re considered one of the greatest “finds” of the modern era, and the 2,000-year-old Great Isaiah Scroll is the most famous. It contains over 25 percent of all the biblical text among the scrolls. Nearly every part of the 66 chapters of Isaiah are intact. Its fragile condition requires it be kept in a temperature-controlled underground fault.
Museum of the Bible displays a facsimile of the Great Isaiah Scroll, allowing generations of people to view and engage with the Bible in all its unifying influence over the centuries.
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So doesn't the intact scroll dispel or confirm the concept that the writings of Isaiah were written as one scroll in a specific order which may or may not indicate the chronology of the events alluded to in the manuscript?

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[@TedBruckner]

Regarding the so-called Great Isaiah Scroll, below is solid info with sources cited to back my my very plausible theory that the rabbis' gathering at Yavne after 70 AD had some old skins to use to produce this scroll and faked the old lettering and then later stashed the scroll like a time-capsule with the intent of how it's being used today.
The writers of the New Testament quoted from Isaiah the most and it's real obvious that their quotes are from the real text: 1) prophecies fulfilled. 2) agrees with the some evidence from Qumran. 3) agrees with the Septuagint.
From the Lexham Bible Dictionary Sampler pg. 187: “1QIsaᵃ preserves a text type that, while close to the traditional Hebrew (Masoretic) text, also contains over two dozen readings where it agrees with the early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (the Septuagint, or LXX) rather than the MT [Masoretic Text]. Some would assign 1QIsaᵃ to a text type distinct from those of both the MT and the LXX (Ulrich and Flint, Qumran).”
“Although the biblical scrolls from Qumran generally retain a more ancient form of Hebrew than that which was actually spoken in that day, some claim that the scribe of 1QIsaᵃ [the so-called Great Isaiah Scroll] clarified the text of Isaiah for an audience that no longer understood some classical Hebrew forms, updating and including more popular terms for a contemporary audience (Parry and Qimron, New Edition).” (in the same source. pg. 187.)
Parry and Qimron undoubtedly were guardedly referring to Dr. Solomon Zeitlin who probably saw the truth of the miraculously preserved preciously few manuscripts, but likely “threw the baby out with the bathwater" meaning he never got to check out 90% of the scraps and fragments that comprise the rest of the so-called "Dead Sea Scrolls."
Professor Zeitlin got to read some of the evidence from Qumran in the years it was being discovered (1948-1956) because there are only 10-12 rather-well to quite-well preserved scrolls and many of these were published in the beginning.
but there’s about 900 manuscripts from Qumran and almost all of them consists of tiny, brittle fragments which were extremely slowly edited over four decades by an exclusive four-man team before they were published in 1991. And virtually no one else had access neither to the scrolls nor even to photographs of the text until they were published.
(An article from February 12, 1956 in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (est. 1917))
Prof. Zeitlin Disputes Value of Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism
The Dead Sea Scrolls “have no value for Judaism or the history of early Christianity” Dr. Solomon Zeitlin, professor of Rabbinic Literature at Dropsie College, said last night at a lecture here. He asserted that the scrolls are not of great antiquity, but were written in the Middle Ages by “none too literate writers and hence have no value for Judaism or early Christianity.”
Dr. Zeitlin based his argument on his study of “the internal evidence” in the scrolls. He pointed out that the spelling of various Hebrew words and terms which occur in the scrolls did not come into usage among the Jews until the Middle Ages. He also indicated that the scrolls contained references to Jewish laws which were not in vogue during the pre-Christian period but were enacted centuries later.
“If one assigned to Shakespeare the authorship of a newly-found manuscript wherein there were words like Fabian, ‘telephone’, ‘automobile’, ‘New Deal’, and reference was made to laws which were enacted in the Victorian age, would any student of English literature regard the manuscript as that of Shakespeare?,” Prof. Zeitlin asked. “Similar reasoning applies to the Dead Sea Scrolls,” he said.
Prof. Zeitlin also disputed the importance of the famous “so-called Manual of Discipline” of the Essene sect, and the Commentary on Habakkuk and the Zadokite Fragments in which the expression “Teacher of Righteousness” is held to be significant for anticipating the ministry of Jesus. “Detailed study of these scrolls show that they were written in the Middle Ages by uneducated Jews who either belonged to one of the Karaitic sects or were influenced by one of them”, he claimed.
(source : www.jta.org/archive/prof-zeitlin-disputes-value-of-dead-sea-scrolls-for-judaism if link won't go through, cut and paste the article's title and Google for it.)
The Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab) is carbon-14 dated as late as AD 122. It and the Community Rule (1QS) which is carbon-14 dated as late as 2 AD were found rolled together as one, packed the same way in which the Great Isaiah scroll (1QIsaᵃ) was packed. Initially upon discovery, they appeared to be two black wax or tar covered cylinders. Being sealed so kept them extremely well-preserved. The Great Isaiah scroll was first carbon dated as late as 1 AD but the scholars date it to 160-200 BC.

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As in what Arab Christians use for the name of God? If so, then yes.

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