from 1,000 years earlier than the oldest text we had before 1947, yet the handwritten text, copied countless times over a period of ten centuries, remained virtually identical. For example, the difference in Isaiah 53, a particularly important Old Testament chapter, is just one word of three letters, and the change makes no difference to the meaning of the passage concerned. The accuracy of the Dead Sea Scrolls convinced F. F. Bruce, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University