Error: I said Moses lived about 2000 BC. In fact he probably lived in 13th century BC.

Assalamwalaikum Mr. Williams, I am an undergraduate student and I am a student of knowledge of your insight and videos, All praises do to Allah SWT, you have made me a much more knowledgeable student when it comes to defending Islam.

AsSalaamu Aleykum mr Paul, very interesting again! I converted to Islam a few months ago and the amount of information I received from your podcast/channel is tremendous alhamdulillah. My family is Christian, Protestants. I’m hoping one day they will accept me sharing some of your videos like these with them, because it’s just very interesting and informative and it’s never a bad idea to learn something, Goodday, Kim

Praising from a Pakistani living in saudi Arabia ... prays for your life and knowledge and may ALLAH accept your efforts

Salaams Mr Williams. I find your content to be well researched and every informative. As a person who was born Muslim I am embarrassed to say my knowledge is wholly inadequate. Shukar Alhamdullilah for all the resources available online. Jazakallah khair for your excellent content.

This video made me think about this vers فَوَيْلٌۭ لِّلَّذِينَ يَكْتُبُونَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ ثُمَّ يَقُولُونَ هَـٰذَا مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ لِيَشْتَرُوا۟ بِهِۦ ثَمَنًۭا قَلِيلًۭا ۖ فَوَيْلٌۭ لَّهُم مِّمَّا كَتَبَتْ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَوَيْلٌۭ لَّهُم مِّمَّا يَكْسِبُونَ ٧٩ So woe to those who distort the Scripture with their own hands then say, “This is from Allah”-seeking a fleeting gain! So woe to them for what their hands have written, and woe to them for what they have earned.

Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas (ra) reported: We were sitting with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he said, *“Shall I not tell you of something by which a man among you can supplicate to relieve the hardships or trials of the world when they descend?”* They said, “Of course!” The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “It is the prayer of Jonah, Dhul Nun: لَّآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنتَ سُبۡحَٰنَكَ إِنِّي كُنتُ مِنَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ There is no God but You, glory be to You for I have certainly been among the wrongdoers.” (21:87) Source: al-Sunan al-Kubrá lil-Nasā’ī 10416 Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani

You really open my eyes to so many things Paul. Thank you. This video was absolutely fascinating.

asSALAMUALAIKum I'm Malaysian we have got the dead sea scroll for few years ago . Anyway thank you for bringing up this topic. My salutation to you.

👋👍Excellent presentation! It's well known that the Hebrew Bible was 'corrected' by Jewish scribes around 800 BCE (after the end of the Bronze Age). Seems like Mr B. Ehrman's book confirms that. Definitely worth reading it!

جزاكم الله خيرا أستاذنا الفاضل بول وليامز على كل ماتقدمه في هذه القناة وأشكرك جزيل الشكر ل تعريفنا ب الدكتور علي عطائي نفعنا الله تعالى بك و بالدكتور علي ❤

Well researched and objective presentation of useful information. May God bless you, Paul Williams.

Thanks for making video on Dead Sea Scrolls.

James Tabor the guest you had the other day is quite fascinated (justifiably so) with this discovery and claims it bolsters the integrity of bible, but after listening to you today, it seems there's much more to it that meets the eye. thanks for the lecture, God bless!

Thanks for sharing Paul and helping to enlighten us, via Bart Ehrman of course 🙂

Jazek Allah khier for clarification Brother 🙏

I’m glad you did search on that, because Christian will say the Dead Sea scrolls confirmed bible preservation, thanks for these enlightenment and Alhamdullilahi for Islam and peace and blessings of be unto the last prophet Muhammad sallahu alaihi wasallam , his family and the sahaba for the Quran compilation and preservation Amin

Very informative talk. Thank you, brother.

Was waiting for this video for a long time, thank you brother Paul!

No printing press , they relied on hand writing of people who could make one mistake and pass it on to everyone. While Muslims relied on memorization of the Quran and were always corrected by each other especially when they lead prayers

Perfect! This book requires a few more segments of exposition.

Thank you, brother Paul.

Great informative video. Really appreciate your time and dedication on researching and most of all sharing what you've learnt in a short summary which would otherwise be unavailable to many.

two silver scroll amulets from the Ketef Hinnom archaeological site are the oldest pieces of the Torah ever found in the world. The scrolls were discovered in 1979 and were estimated to be from around the late seventh or early sixth century BCE. The two small strips of silver contain what is known as the Priestly Benediction, from the Book of Numbers (the fourth book of the Torah), making it the oldest biblical passage ever found on an ancient artifact. The curse tablet of Mount Ebal about 1000 BCE

Excellent stuff! May Allah reward you, Paul.

Also in the scroll is a group who followed someone they called the righteous teacher 150-100 years before Jesus and many things in gospels were clearly taken from this group, for all we know the gospel writers were probably part of this group

Thank you for sharing.

Paul, the scriptures of Ethiopia are at the root of all Semitic languages, sad that the English universities doesn't have any research of the ancient languages of that area. I wish there were.

So Hebrew scriptures from the Tanakh in the Dead Sea Scrolls would lack the type of phonetic vowel markings that were standardized much later in time; is that right? Songs of Solomon 5:11 His head is as the finest gold; his locks are curled, [they are as] black as a raven. Rashi comments on the meaning of "his head is as gold", saying: "[it] glistens like the finest gold. כֶּתֶם is a term referring to the treasures of kings which they store in their treasure houses, and similarly, (Lam. 4:1): “[How] changed is the fine gold jewelry (הַכֶּתֶם) ,” and similarly, (Job 31:24): “and to jewelry (לַכֶּתֶם) I said, ‘My confidence,’” and similarly, (Prov. 25:12): “and jewelry of finest gold (כָתֶם).” So this man is being described as a King. He isn't literally wearing a physical crown, but his head is still like the purest gold. This indicates spiritual and social status. Rashi then mentions that "hair as black as a raven" is a quality of beauty. This is what verse 11 literally says in Hebrew: rō-šōw ke-ṯem pāz his head [is] like gold; (the) finest qəw-wṣ-ṣō-w-ṯāw tal-tal-lîm his locks; wavy (like palm-branches) This is quite a strange literary device. This particular form only occurs in this verse. The Brown-Driver-Briggs dictionary says: "envelope or sheath of spadix of date-palm, with which hair is often compared in Arabic poetry", and that's why it's usually translated as "locks of wavy hair", but they aren't exactly sure what it means. They take that meaning from Arabic poetry, as there's no Biblical passage that uses this word, and nowhere else are any similar forms ever translated to mean "bushy locks". These are two nouns, by the way. So it's actually quite a difficult expression to translate. šə-ḥō-rō-wṯ kā-‘ō-w-rêḇ (and) [they are] black like a raven Note that the word for "(like a) raven" there is very similar to "(like an) Arab", if you'd subtly change it. In Ezekiel 27:21, it says עֲרַב֙ In Genesis 8:7, it says עֹרֵ֑ב The first ‘ă·raḇ means Arabia, whereas ‘ō-rêḇ in Genesis is a crow. Job 38:41 עֹרֵ֗ב Psalm 83:11 עֹרֵ֣ב The first ‘ō-rêḇ is a crow, while ‘ō·rêḇ in the Psalm is a proper noun and name: Oreb (a name of a Midianite, and of a cliff near the Jordan river). Job 24:5 עֲרָבָ֥ה That's ‘ă-rā-ḇāh, which now means desert or wilderness. Isaiah 13:20 עֲרָבִ֔י Nehemiah 2:19 הָֽעַרְבִ֔י This says ‘ă·rā·ḇî, which means an Arab, or an Arabian. Nehemiah reads hā-‘ar-ḇî, meaning "the Arab". The point being that "crow" and "Arab" are extremely similar in writing, and pronunciations differ only because of small diacritics. If the text hasn't been properly preserved, and isn't 100% intact, then another reading of šə-ḥō-rō-wṯ kā-‘ō-w-rêḇ might have said: "(and) [his hairs are] black like an Arab" The preposition kā here doesn't necessarily literally mean 'a resemblance', as kāna in Arabic can mean "to be", because ka- can mark the present tense. Kayqūl ma bḡa means "he says (presently) what he wants" and it wouldn't mean that 'it's similar to' "saying what he wants". Consider: "His head (is) as the finest gold, (and) his locks (are) black as an Arab('s typically are)". I've often wondered if my inquiry (and pseudo analysis) here could be valid, and if the scribes could've 'tweaked' the word, in order to change the meaning. After all, why would this text be describing an Arab? To them, that must've sounded strange. Maybe some ancient scribe thought that he was about to copy a previously made error, and that he needed to correct it. Other geographic designations, however, are used in Songs 5 to describe aspects of this individual and/or others (e.g. Lebanon and Jerusalem). Jeremiah 3:2 כַּעֲרָבִ֖י Songs 5:11 כָּעוֹרֵֽב Ka·‘ă·rā·ḇî from Jeremiah literally means "like an Arab", while kā·‘ō·w·rêḇ in Songs 5:11 means "like a raven". עֲרָבִי עֹרֵב Arabian: Ayin, Resh, Bet Raven: Ayin, Resh, Bet If we omit the Kaf in Jeremiah 3:2, it leaves us with the letters Ayin, Resh, Bet, but when we omit the Kaf in Songs, we have Ayin, Waw, Resh, Bet. Why is that? Why does it include the Waw here? Can anyone comment on that? "Raven" in Job 38:41, Genesis 8:7 and "Oreb" in Psalm 83:11 all lack a Waw. I don't understand why Songs' "raven" is spelled as A-W-R-B. It seems to be the only instance "raven" is written like that. Isaiah 34:11 wə-yan-šō-wp̄ wə-‘ō-rêḇ and the owl and the raven Here, וְעֹרֵ֖ב is spelled as A-R-B, as seems to be typical. Also, I can't really detect a rhyme scheme in the text, but I don't know Hebrew, so I'm not entirely sure there is none, and if there is; how it's structured. The previous verse ends with mê-rə-ḇā-ḇāh, and then verse 10 ends with šə-ḥō-rō-wṯ kā-‘ō-w-rêḇ, and in the middle of 12 it says rō-ḥă-ṣō-wṯ be-ḥā-lāḇ. Again, this is highly speculative on my part, and rooted in ignorance, but mê-rə-ḇā-ḇāh - šə-ḥō-rō-wṯ kā-‘ă·rāḇ - rō-ḥă-ṣō-wṯ be-ḥā-lāḇ kinda sounds more like a pattern to me. I looked up this chapter in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but it appears they haven't translated this part yet, or it doesn't exist in the scrolls. I could only find a translation of the first verse: Lover 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; Friends! Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. And this is filled with sidenotes. Different words, words with different spellings, English words supplied to make it readable wherever words are missing, etc. I think only six words of the above translation are identical to the traditional text. The rest all seem to be problematic in one way or another. At the top it says about this chapter: "Translation process is ongoing." This translation is from the 4Q107 Canticles (manuscript), labled 6Q6? I assume this describes the cave it's been found in, at Qumran. It's dated to 30 B.C - 68 A.D. The site says there are 4 scrolls containing (parts or fragments of) Songs of Solomon. Yet, verse 1 is all they got for chapter 5? Kinda meager, no? I don't know how up-to-date this particular website is. And I'm curious if 5:11 is included, and (if so), how it 'could' be read.

Terima kasih.

Love your channel!! Keep the good work

Subhanallah. The Book of Isaiah is said to contain the prophecy of our beloved Muhammad SAW. Recalling Dr Ali Ataie earlier talk w brother Paul. Lovely piece sir. Salam from KL

in the book of Isiah (from dead sea scroll) chapter 42 verse 11 it is written... "Let the desert cry out, its cities and the villages that Kedar inhabits, and let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy. Let them shout aloud from the tops of the mountains." Kedar was the son of Ismail As and also sela is the mountain in medinah just 500 metres away from masjid nabwi. So the prophecy of Hazrat Muhammad SA is there in the dead sea scrolls

Nice review and explanation Paul

Dr Kipp Davis is an expert in the DSS, he's also active on YT. Would be an epic crossover if you feature him, he has many insights I find very helpful!

Thanks Paul sharing for this, quite an interesting one. I’d suggest you to search Dr. Zafer Duygu and his works on this subject, he’s one of the most knowledgeable and highly respected researchers in Turkey on this matter, his main studies are about the evidences of the historical transformation of Christianity and Judaism and the Scriptures. Maybe you can invite him one day to your platform.

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Thank you. Nice information

Thank you Paul.. ❤ just like a jurnal speaking to us... 😅

What a beautifully lucid account. It is a very important subject for me because I have an interest in the esoteric aspects of theology as communicated by means of gematria. It was certainly understood from the time Matthew 5,18 was written that the displacement of a single jot or tittle is enough to destroy the intended gematria reading. It strikes me as certain that numerical interpretations of the Torah were preserved as a tradition from the time they were composed (whenever that may have been). For example a numerical analysis of the first verse of Genesis reveals extremely meaningful and information-rich patterns. The tradition is that these numerical features were known to Moses, but it is possible they result from editing/composition in much later periods. Is it possible the first seven words of the Torah are not original and have been heavily tinkered with, or does the balance of probability lie with them accurately recording ancient canonical secrets?

I NEEDED THIS thank you Pauk😊

Awesome academic stuffs bro Paul William

Beautifully done! May Allah increase you In imaan and us as well.

Great channel, great video as usual

بارك الله فيكم... اللهم اغفر لوالدينا و ارحمهما و اجمعنا معهما في الفردوس الأعلى مع الأنبياء و الشهداء و الصالحين و جميع موتى المسلمين.. اللهم احقن دماء المسلمين و انصرهم على من عاداهم.. رب إني مسني الضر و أنت أرحم الراحمين... لا إله إلا أنت سبحانك إني كنت من الظالمين..... .''''''' .............. . ................................

May Allah bless you sir Paul. ❤

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اللهُمَّ حَاسِبْنِي حِسَابًا يَسِيرًا *O Allah, grant me an easy reckoning* [Allāhumma ḥāsibnī ḥisāba-y-yasīrā.] [Musnad Aḥmad 24215] • Aisha (رضي الله عنها) reported: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Whoever is fully taken to account on the Day of Resurrection will be punished.” I said, “Has not Allah Almighty said: He will soon have an easy reckoning?” (84:8) The Prophet said, “That is not the reckoning, for it is only the presentation of deeds. Whoever is interrogated for his account will be punished.” •Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2876

i pray for your good health, may allah keep you safe and healthy in both world.

"Woe, then, to those who write the book with their hands and then say: This is from Allah, so that they may take for it a small price; therefore woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for what they earn." Qur'an 2:79

Salaam brother Paul. Moses AS could not have lived 2-2,5000 BCE as Ramesis the second (pharaoh of exodus) lived about 1200 BCE. Furthermore, Yusuf AS was most likely in Egypt during the Hyksos era which was only about 1500BCE

Thanks for the information

It is indeed a fact that the Hebrew script had adopted the Arabic system of ‘inflections.’ Wrt to the Dead Sea Scrolls, I urge people to read the book ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception’ by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.

Good to know

Thank you brother Paul by briefly analysis book about biblical from dead sea scrools by Bart Erhman...🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much. For long, I'd been looking for something reliable about this subject. I'm there now. If I may ask, can we accept that the Palestinians are true ancient Judeans?. Please advise.❤

Thank God for preserving the Quran

Allahumma barik

Fascinating

Thank you Paul for reviewing the book.The text is not cheap as it is produced by Bart Ehrman with the primary interest to make money for Mr. Ehrman.

Thanks for sharing Paul. I think you’d really enjoy the book “The Lost Bible:Forgotten Scriptures Revealed” by JR Porter. Such an interesting book!

Paul, try wear batik, I think it'll suits you well.

Well done 👍

The Gospel of Barnabas was hunted down and destroyed along with the Unitarian Church.

Brilliant, learnt so much.

Alhamdulillah. I learned more about Dead sea scrolls. My Allah rewards you abundantly, brother Paul. Have you make a video of discussion with dead sea scrolls expert, Dr Eisenman?

❤🎉 thanks brother dr paul williams

Good work . . . Thanks

Much more information

I wish all God fearing seekers of truth could listen to your words, particularly those who currently live in Israel.

Thanos again for an informative vlog.

Thank you and may the Almighty creator of all things reward you in this and the next life 😍

Again a great informative and interesting video, Alhamdulliah that Allah gave us Paul so that we can be informed about such intricate matters.

3:20 Paul, Moses didn't live 2000 or 2500BCE, not by any historical account. Definitely within 1450-1250BCE, this being the 18th or 19th dynasty of Egypt.

May Almighty Allah Bless You.

Christians would reply to this argument by saying ' I saw jesus in my dream and my life changed after that, Hallelujah, hence christianity must be true'

Brilliant and most informative history and faiths. Truly enlightening.

Make more 23min videos brother. Thanks 👍

You’re missing that the scrolls were written by a breakaway sect of Jews who rebelled against the Pharisees and They made mistakes because they weren’t well educated I have personally looked at the dead sea scrolls with scribes, who say that their ability to write, was “childish“

Alhumdulillah for Islam

جزاك الله خيرا

Thanks

Very interesting, does the book give some examples of the differences found in the dead sea scrolls?

May Allah (Subhanahu wa ta’ala) reward you for your efforts.. ameen

3:20 I think it is the Leningrad manuscripts 1010 CE. or around that time!

WOW, interesting!

Hi brother Paul , I hope you doing well , I have a question. What is opinion of western scholarship on book (Acts of apostles) in the bible ?

We must keep finding evidence as much as we can, we need more

*Ouchhhh* : It's in, into present day that in Samuel, all AMELEK is to be destroyed, lock stock and barrel. 1 Samuel 15 in The Dead Sea Scroll is way different. Genesis 38 is also different

I suggest discussing the book Dialogue of Civilizations (A Doctrinal Study in Light of the Qur’an and Sunnah) Author: Fahd bin Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al-Sunaidi Supervision: Dr. Mazen bin Salah Mutabaqani. It is written in Arabic.

Tbh, the terms "Complete Bible" is kinda missleading at this point. what I mean is that we dont have the "Complete Bible" today, as we all know some individuals make their own version of "Complete Bible". and on top of that, the exegeses from the church and the layman are kinda full of missguidance and all over the place as well from the "Complete Bible" itself. 15:40 About the "Book of Isaiah" I wonder why it preserve like that. hmm

Very interesting paul. I wonder could you recommend your top 10 books for those who want to do a more scholarly study of christianity than what the main line churches offer. Perhaps a video

In book of Jeremiah the scribes were scolded, while a prophet was among them. I do not trust them with the preservation centuries after that, with no one I can trust correcting them.

Isn't the Torah in the Samaritan group different from the Torah in the Masoretic group?

Notice the slight of hand (deception). Williams says (3:44) the oldest "complete manuscript", which he means a complete copy of the old testament, that we have is the Leningrad codex which dates from the year "1000 CE". Then (6:43) williams gives muslims "a footnote" by comparing the Leningrad codex with the koran. The example he gives is the Birmingham manuscript. But, this is his deception trick, because he is comparing the COMPLETE Leningrad bible with three suras in Birmingham. So he is not comparing a complete bible with a complete koran. He is comparing a complete bible with SCRAPS of the/A koran in Birmingham, whose scraps text are not completely identical to the same suras you have today.. If paul used equal scales, there are old testament manuscript scraps too, that are older than the Leningrad codex. Much older. The ketef Hinnom scrolls which has material from leviticus and deuteronomy is dated at the "late 7th century or early 6th century BCE. 1000 years older than islam! So instead on comparing fragment for fragment, like the ketef hinnom scroll with the three suras in Birmingham, williams deliberately deceives his audience into thinking that he is comparing a complete koran with the complete Leningrad codex, when he is not doing so at all. Even right before he tries to make a comparison with the Birmingham manuscript three suras, he says "but not even among the Dead Sea scrolls did we find complete manuscripts OF THE ENTIRE HEBREW BIBLE". But the Birmingham manuscripts are NOT "the entire" koran. It is just three suras. Williams even calls the three suras of the Birmingham manuscript (6:49) "copies of the koran". It is not a copy of the koran. Birmingham manuscripts are only three suras. So is williams just stupid or is he corrupt? You decide. There can be no other possible explanations for why williams did what he did. I don't know why muslims accept such charlatans tricking muslims into believing false information. What it does show though is that Williams is very corrupt. If you are going to teach something, teach it. Don't corrupt and distort the facts in hope that no one would notice. I have placed the time stamps in this post so you can go and see for yourselves the trick williams tries to pull off. And then ask yourselves, is this what you want, someone to deceive you and lead you into believing a lie? And then ask yourselves, what time of person does that? Someone who actually believes in God, or an atheist who is free to lie and distort without fear of divine judgement? Or is, that Williams thinks his god allah approves of the deception if it makes islam look better than it really is?

The Dead Sea scrolls confirm the info in surah Al kahf. According to historians the Essenes lived in caves for 300 years and they used a solar calendar unlike other Israelites who used a lunar calendar. This is confirmed in surah Al kahf where Allah almighty is pulling our attention to / with the mathematical conversion (300 years and 309 years) one is solar calendar years and the other is Lunar calendar years. This info was only discovered after the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered

3:17 6:30 C 7:35 8:30, 8:53 11:02, 14:41 15:33, 16:18, 16:36, 17:44

The year 1258 is the tear the tartar destroyed the Baghdad library. The largest in the world at the time. Humanity list so much then.

Paul, the Isaiah Scroll has been tampered with as well.

People tend to forget a very important aspect of the bible That being it primarily was an oral tradition memorised by talmidim/Talmed (hebrew and aramaic for "narrator") it had many oral iterations in aramaic, some like the Vetus Syria which is a reconstruction of the XIX to XX century, of an earlier manuscript compiled by a Christian monk on the 2nd century A.D. The Vetus Syria even predates the aramaic greek revisions of the 5th century a.D. in which Christian bishops revised aramaic bibles to better align to Greek cognates and grammatical structure Best example of this being the Aramaic Bible of the Christians of Edesa and their Bishop Rabula. One can only wonder why the church felt the need to align aramaic text to greek grammar and loan words ;) But the bigger point would be that Aramaic texts predated the compilation of the greek bible, since precisely te greek revision ocurred in the fifth century a.D. pretty much at the same time the Greek Bible was compiled, since we know the Greek Bible earliest manuscripts date to this century. Implying really aramaic prints of the vetus syria are way more reliable than Hebrew even, because Aramaic is the primary language of oral transmision, and the vetus syria is a reconstruction of a pre-greek revision manuscript. Hebrew reconstructions such as the Leningrad and most hebrew prints that come from it are only partially reliable in comparision to Aramaic manuscripts comming from the Vetus Syria.