Giuseppe Guarino 
7Q5 The New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls 
In Defense of an Early Dating of the New Testament

Sometimes evidence of the past may be huge, majestic, like the Egyptian pyramids. Other times it is all hidden in small fragments. Then it all depends on man’s deductive ability to reveal the truths hidden in the surviving evidence.

The latter is the case with the manuscript fragment called 7Q5 – which stands for relic 5 of cave 7 in the Qumran site.

Many have tried to understand what 7Q5 actually bears witness to. I am sure many have spent sleepless nights trying to understand if it is possible to prove what was the content of the original complete manuscript – I am one of them.

I felt the need to find answers to the puzzling questions that 7Q5 arises and share them with others.