Those "experts" on The Da Vinci Code at the Sony-funded site devoted to "dialogue" (See Barb Nicolosi’s shredding of that below) need to correct some things:

No. Dead Sea Scrolls: discovered in 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea. Hence the name. Get it?

Dead Sea Scrolls are products of Essenes, not Gnostics, and do not mention Jesus.

Nag Hammadi discovery: 1945 in Egypt, not of scrolls, but of codices – an ancient form of book. Are, indeed gnostic, perhaps, it is speculated, the remnants of the library of a gnostic monastery.

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