Dr. Bobby Duke, chief curatorial officer at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is previewing a new exhibit coming to the museum in November: a powerful exploration of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Duke told CBN News the significance of the biblical manuscripts and why the discovery has revolutionized biblical understanding.

“Before 1947, our best Hebrew manuscripts came from about 1,000 AD,” he said. “And when the first cave was found there at Qumran in 1947, it shaved off 1,000 years of manuscript transmission and let us see what the Hebrew Bible was like, what scrolls were like around the time of Jesus and the disciples.”

The scrolls were found by accident in the 1940s, with the discovery transforming understanding of original biblical texts.

“In late 1946 or early 1947, Bedouin te

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