Jonathan, I think you should apologise to the Jewish members of this list for posting a link to this kind of anti-Semitic conspiracy theory material.
From the first page I looked at, http://www.christianseparatist.org/ast/hist/ot.htm:
> Jews begin to deceive Catholics into accepting Hebrew through Jerome.
... and worse.
I think the following (from http://www.christianseparatist.org/ast/hist/qumran.htm) illustrates clearly how valueless the book is:
First of all, the Israeli government has kept the documents from the general public, so an exhaustive study of their textual content is unavailable. The reason that the Jews have kept a hold on the documents is clear from what documents and statistics have been released. They even fought the Six Day War to gain control of the documents. The Qumran Scrolls of the Old Testament agree with the Septuagint version of the Old Testament to a far greater degree than they agree with the Masoretic Text. Thus, from a statistical point of view, the Dead Sea Scrolls are dangerous to the Jews. At the same time, however, for the most part, the Dead Sea Scrolls do not agree with either the Masoretic Text or the Septuagint, but preserve another type of reading altogether.
This is simply full of factual errors with a clearly tendentious intention.
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