“So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word” (Ps 119:42). In the spring of 1947, a Bedouin was searching for a lost goat near the shore of the Dead Sea at Qumran. He threw a stone into a cave which contained not his goat but jars filled with manuscripts. Hearing a jar break, he thought he had found treasure, little realizing what it was. What made the Dead Sea Scrolls such a remarkable find in confirming the reliability of the Old Testament was the fact that prior to their discovery the earliest text in Hebrew dated only to the 10th century ad. Biblical scholar Gleason Archer noted that in spite of 1,000 years separating the Scrolls and the Masoretic Text, “The texts from Qumran proved to be word-for-word identical to our standard Hebrew Bible in more than 95 percent of the text. The five percent of variation consisted primarily of obvious slips of the pen and spelling alterations.” —Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, p 25