Dead Sea Scrolls
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Material | Parchment, papyrus, and copper |
Writing | Mostly Hebrew, but also Aramaic and Greek |
Created | c. 3rd century BCE – 1st century CE |
Discovered | 1946/1947–1956 |
Place | Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha |
Present location | Israel Museum, Jerusalem Jordan Museum, Amman |
Period | Second Temple period |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of 10 years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE,[1] the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered to be a keystone in the history of archaeology with great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons, along with extra-biblical and deuterocanonical manuscripts that preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. At the same time, they cast new light on the emergence of Christianity and of Rabbinic Judaism.[2] Almost all of the 15,000 scrolls and scroll fragments are held in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum, located in the city of Jerusalem. The Israeli government's custody of the Dead Sea Scrolls is disputed by Jordan and the Palestinian Authority on territorial, legal, and humanitarian grounds — they were mostly discovered following the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank and were acquired by Israel after Jordan lost the 1967 Arab–Israeli War[3] — whilst Israel's claims are primarily based on historical and religious grounds, given their significance in Jewish history and in the heritage of Judaism.[4]
Many thousands of written fragments have been discovered in the Dead Sea area. They represent the remnants of larger manuscripts damaged by natural causes or through human interference, with the vast majority holding only small scraps of text. However, a small number of well-preserved and near-intact manuscripts have survived — fewer than a dozen among those from the Qumran Caves.[1] Researchers have assembled a collection of 981 different manuscripts (discovered in 1946/1947 and in 1956) from 11 caves,[5] which lie in the immediate vicinity of the Hellenistic Jewish settlement at the site of Khirbet Qumran in the eastern Judaean Desert, in the West Bank.[6] The caves are located about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) west of the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, whence they derive their name. Archaeologists have long associated the scrolls with the ancient Jewish sect known as the Essenes, although some recent interpretations have challenged this connection and argue that priests in Jerusalem, or Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups wrote the scrolls.[7][8]
Most of the manuscripts are written in Hebrew, with some written in Aramaic (for example the Son of God Text; in different regional dialects, including Nabataean) and a few in Greek.[9] Discoveries from the Judaean Desert add Latin (from Masada) and Arabic (from Khirbet al-Mird).[10] Most of the texts are written on parchment, some on papyrus, and one on copper.[11] Though scholarly consensus dates the Dead Sea Scrolls to between the 3rd century BCE and the 1st century CE,[12] there are manuscripts from associated Judaean Desert sites that are dated to as early as the 8th century BCE and as late as the 11th century CE.[13] Bronze coins found at the same sites form a series beginning with John Hyrcanus, a ruler of the Hasmonean Kingdom (in office 135–104 BCE), and continuing until the period of the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), supporting the paleography and radiocarbon dating of the scrolls.[14]
Owing to the poor condition of some of the scrolls, scholars have not identified all of their texts. The identified texts fall into three general groups:
- About 40% are copies of texts from Hebrew scriptures.
- Approximately another 30% are texts from the Second Temple period that ultimately were not canonized in the Hebrew Bible, like the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Tobit, the Wisdom of Sirach, Psalms 152–155, etc.
- The remainder (roughly 30%) are sectarian manuscripts of previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular sect or groups within greater Judaism, like the Community Rule, the War Scroll, the Pesher on Habakkuk, and The Rule of the Blessing.[15][need quotation to verify]
Discovery
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The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in a series of 12 caves around the site originally known as Ein Feshkha near the Dead Sea in the West Bank (then controlled by Jordan) between 1946 and 1956 by Bedouin shepherds and a team of archeologists.[16] The practice of storing worn-out sacred manuscripts in earthenware vessels buried in the earth or within caves is related to the ancient Jewish custom of genizah.
Initial discovery (1946–1947)
The initial discovery by Bedouin shepherd Muhammed edh-Dhib, his cousin Jum'a Muhammed, and Khalil Musa took place between November 1946 and February 1947.[17][18] The shepherds discovered seven scrolls housed in jars in a cave near what is now known as the Qumran site. John C. Trever reconstructed the story of the scrolls from several interviews with the Bedouin. Edh-Dhib's cousin noticed the caves, but edh-Dhib himself was the first to actually fall into one (the cave now called Cave 1). He retrieved a handful of scrolls, which Trever identifies as the Isaiah Scroll, Habakkuk Commentary, and the Community Rule, and took them back to the camp to show to his family. None of the scrolls were destroyed in this process.[19] The Bedouin kept the scrolls hanging on a tent pole while they contemplated what they should do with them, periodically showing the scrolls to their people. At some point during this time, the Community Rule was split in two. The Bedouin first took the scrolls to a dealer named Ibrahim 'Ijha in Bethlehem. 'Ijha returned them, saying they were worthless, after being warned that they might have been stolen from a synagogue. Undaunted, the Bedouin went to a nearby market, where a Syrian Christian offered to buy them. A sheikh joined their conversation and suggested that they take the scrolls to Khalil Eskander Shahin, "Kando", a cobbler and part-time antiques dealer. The Bedouin and the dealers returned to the site, leaving one scroll with Kando and selling three others to a dealer for seven Jordanian pounds (approximately $28, or $367 in 2022 dollars).[19][20] The original scrolls continued to change hands after the Bedouin left them in the possession of a third party until a sale could be arranged.
In 1947 the original seven scrolls caught the attention of John C. Trever of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), who compared the script in the scrolls to that of the Nash Papyrus, the oldest biblical manuscript then known, and found similarities between them. In March the 1948 Arab–Israeli War prompted the move of some of the scrolls to Beirut, Lebanon for safekeeping. On 11 April 1948, Millar Burrows, head of the ASOR, announced the discovery of the scrolls in a general press release.
Search for the Qumran caves (1948–1949)
Early in September 1948, Metropolitan bishop Mar Samuel brought some additional scroll fragments that he had acquired to professor Ovid R. Sellers, the new director of ASOR. By the end of 1948, nearly two years after the discovery of the scrolls, scholars had yet to locate the original cave where the fragments had been found. With unrest in the country at that time, no large-scale search could be safely undertaken. Sellers tried to persuade the Syrians to assist in the search for the cave, but he was unable to pay their price. In early 1949, the government of Jordan granted permission to the Arab Legion to search the area in which the original Qumran cave was believed to exist. Consequently, Cave 1 was rediscovered on 28 January 1949 by Belgian United Nations observer captain Phillipe Lippens and Arab Legion captain Akkash el-Zebn.[21]
Qumran caves rediscovery and new scroll discoveries (1949–1951)
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The rediscovery of what became known as Cave 1 at Qumran prompted the initial excavation of the site from 15 February to 5 March 1949 by the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, led by Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux.[22] The Cave 1 site yielded discoveries of additional Dead Sea Scroll fragments, linen cloth, jars, and other artifacts.[23]
Excavations of Qumran and new cave discoveries (1951–1956, 2017, 2021)
In November 1951, Roland de Vaux and his team from the ASOR began a full excavation of Qumran.[24] By February 1952, the Bedouin had discovered 30 fragments in what was to be designated Cave 2.[25] The discovery of a second cave eventually yielded 300 fragments from 33 manuscripts, including fragments of Jubilees and the Wisdom of Sirach written in Hebrew.[23][24] The following month, on 14 March 1952, the ASOR team discovered a third cave with fragments of Jubilees and the Copper Scroll.[25] Between September and December 1952, the fragments and scrolls of Caves 4, 5, and 6 were discovered by the ASOR teams.[24]
With the monetary value of the scrolls rising as their historical significance was made more public, the Bedouins and the ASOR archaeologists accelerated their search for the scrolls separately in the same general area of Qumran, which was more than one kilometer in length. Between 1953 and 1956, de Vaux led four more archaeological expeditions in the area to uncover scrolls and artifacts.[23] Cave 11 was discovered in 1956 and yielded the last fragments to be found in the vicinity of Qumran.[26]
Caves 4–10 are clustered in an area lying in relative proximity 150 m (160 yd) from Khirbet Qumran, while caves 1, 2, 3 and 11 are located 1 mile (1–2 kilometres) north, with Cave 3 the most remote.[27][28]
In February 2017, Hebrew University archaeologists announced the discovery of a new 12th cave.[29] There was one blank parchment found in a jar, but broken and empty scroll jars and pickaxes suggest that the cave was looted in the 1950s.[30]
In March 2021, Israeli archaeologists announced the discovery of dozens of fragments bearing biblical text, written in Greek, from the books of Zechariah and Nahum. This group of findings is believed to have been hidden in a cave between 132 and 136 CE during the Bar Kokhba revolt.[31] However, a 10,500-year-old basket hewn of woven reeds was also discovered in the Muraba'at caves in the Nahal Darga Reserve. Other discoveries included the remains of a child wrapped in cloth dated to around 6,000 years ago, and a cache of coins from the days of the Bar Kochba revolt.[32]
In 2021, more scrolls were discovered by Israeli authorities in a different cave near the Dead Sea called the Cave of Horror.[33][34]
Scrolls and fragments
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The 972 manuscripts found at Qumran were found primarily in two separate formats: as scrolls and as fragments of previous scrolls and texts. In the fourth cave the fragments were torn into up to 15,000 pieces. These small fragments created somewhat of a problem for scholars. G.L. Harding, director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, began working on piecing the fragments together but did not finish this before his death in 1979.[35]
Cave 1
The original seven scrolls from Cave 1 at Qumran are the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), a second copy of Isaiah (1QIsab), the Community Rule Scroll (1QS), the Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab), the War Scroll (1QM), the Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH), and the Genesis Apocryphon (1QapGen).[36]
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 1 | |||||||
1QIsaa | Great Isaiah Scroll | Isaiah 1:1–31; 2:1–22; 3:1–5:30; 6:1–13; 7:1–25; 8:1–23; 9:1–20; 10:1–34; 11:1–45:25; 46:1–66:24 | Hebrew | 356–103 BCE/150–100 BCE | Contains all 66 chapters with occasional lacunae and some missing words at the bottom of some columns | [37][38] | |
1QIsab | Isaiah | cf. 1Q8 | The Book of Isaiah | Hebrew | Hasmonean/Herodian | A second copy of portions of the Book of Isaiah | [39][40] |
1QS | Serekh ha-Yahad or "Community Rule" | Hebrew | cf. 4QSa-j = 4Q255–64, 5Q11 | [41] | |||
1QpHab | Pesher on Habakkuk | Habakkuk 1–2 | Hebrew | Later half of the 1st century BC | Commentary on Habakkuk 1:2–17; 2:1–20 | [42][43] | |
1QM | Milhamah or War Scroll | Hebrew | cf. 4Q491, 4Q493; 11Q14? | ||||
1QHa | Hodayot or Thanksgiving Hymns | Hebrew | Some parts are also preserved in 1QHb and 4QHa-f | [44] | |||
1QapGen | Genesis Apocryphon | Genesis 12:18–15:4 | Aramaic | 25 BCE–50 CE | [45] | ||
CTLevi | Cairo Geniza or Testament of Levi | Aramaic | |||||
1QGen | Genesis | 1Q1 | Genesis 1:18–21; 3:11–14; 22:13–15; 23:17–19; 24:22–24 | Hebrew | Herodian | [46][47] | |
1QExod | Exodus | 1Q2 | Exodus 16:12–16; 19:24–20:2, 20:5–6; 20:25–21:1; 21:4–5 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][48] | |
1QpaleoLev | Leviticus – Numbers | 1Q3 | Leviticus 11:10–11; 19:30–34; 20:20–24; 21:24–22:6; 23:4–8 and Numbers 1:48–50 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman; Palaeo-Hebrew script | [46][49] | |
1QDeuta | Deuteronomy | 1Q4 | Deuteronomy 1:22–25; 4:47–49; 8:18–19; 9:27–28; 11:27–30; 13:1–6, 13–14; 14:21, 24–25; 16:4, 6–7 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][50][51] | |
1QDeutb | 1Q5 | Deuteronomy 1:9–13; 8:8–9; 9:10; 11:30–31; 15:14–15; 17:16; 21:8–9; 24:10–16; 25:13–18; 28:44–48; 29:9–20; 30:19–20; 31:1–10, 12–13; 32:17–29; 33:12–24 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][50][52] | ||
1QJudg | Judges | 1Q6 | Judges 6:20–22; 8:1(?); 9:2–6, 28–31, 40–43, 48–49 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][53] | |
1QSam | Samuel | 1Q7 | 2 Samuel 18:17–18; 20:6–10; 21:16–18; 23:9–12 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][54] | |
1QIsab | Isaiah | Parts of 1QIsab as 1Q8 | Isaiah 7:22–25; 8:1; 10:17–19; 12:3–6; 13:1–8, 16–19; 15:3–9; 16:1–2, 7–11; 19:7–17, 20–25; 20:1; 22:11–18, 24–25; 23:1–4; 24:18–23; 25:1–8; 26:1–5; 28:15–20; 29:1–8; 30:10–14, 21–26; 35:4–5; 37:8–12; 38:12–22; 39:1–8; 40:2–3; 41:3–23; 43:1–13, 23–27; 44:21–28; 45:1–13; 46:3–13; 47:1–14; 48:17–22; 49:1–15; 50:7–11; 51:1–10; 52:7–15; 53:1–12; 54:1–6; 55:2–13; 56:1–12; 57:1–4, 17–21; 58:1–14; 59:1–8, 20–21; 60:1–22; 61:1–2; 62:2–12; 63:1–19; 64:1, 6–8; 65:17–25; 66:1–24 | Hebrew | Herodian | [39][46] | |
1QEzek | Ezekiel | Parts of 1QIsab as 1Q9 | Ezekiel 4:16–17; 5:1 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][55] | |
1QPsa | Psalms | 1Q10 | Psalm 86:5–8; 92:12–14; 94:16; 95:11–96:2; 119:31–34, 43–48, 77–79 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][56] | |
1QPsb | 1Q11 | Psalm 126:6; 127:1–5; 128:3 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [46][57] | ||
1QPsc | 1Q12 | Psalm 44:3–5, 7, 9, 23–25 | Hebrew | Herodian | [46][58] | ||
1QPhyl | Phylactery | 1Q13 | Deuteronomy 5:23–27; 11:8–11 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | 58 fragments from a Phylactery | [50][59][60] |
1QpMic | Pesher on Micah | 1Q14 | Hebrew | Herodian | [59][61] | ||
1QpZeph | Pesher on Zephaniah | 1Q15 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [59][62] | ||
1QpPs | Pesher on Psalms | 1Q16 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [59][63] | ||
1QJuba | Jubilees | 1Q17 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Jubilees | [59][64] | |
1QJubb | 1Q18 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Jubilees | [59][65] | ||
1QNoah | Book of Noah | 1Q19 | Hebrew | Herodian | Parts of the lost Book of Noah | [59][66] | |
1QapGen | Fragments of the "Genesis Apocryphon" | 1Q20 | Aramaic | Herodian | [67][68] | ||
1QTLevi / 1QALD | Testament of Levi | 1Q21 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | Aramaic Levi Document | [69][70] | |
1QDM | "Dibrê Moshe" or "Words of Moses" | 1Q22 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [69][71] | ||
1QEnGiantsa | Book of Giants | 1Q23 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | Enoch | [72][73] | |
1QEnGiantsb | Book of Giants | 1Q24 | Aramaic | Hellenistic-Roman | Enoch | [72][74] | |
1Q Apocr.Prophecy | "Apocryphal Prophecy" | 1Q25 | Hebrew | Herodian | [75][76] | ||
1Q Instruction | "Instruction" | 1Q26 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [75][77] | ||
1QMyst | "The Book of Mysteries" | 1Q27 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [75][78] | ||
1QS or 1QSa | "Rule of the Congregation" | 1Q28 (1Q28a) | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragment from "Community Rule" | [75][79] | |
1QSb | "Rule of the Blessing" or "Rule of the Benedictions" | 1Q28b | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [75][80] | ||
1QapocrMoses B | Apocryphon of Moses | 1Q29 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | "Liturgy of the Three Tongues of Fire" | [75][81] | |
1Q Liturgical Text(?) A | "Liturgical Text 1" | 1Q30 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [75][82] | ||
1Q Liturgical Text(?) B | "Liturgical Text 2" | 1Q31 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [75][83] | ||
1QNJ(?) | "New Jerusalem" | 1Q32 | Aramaic | Herodian | cf. 11Q18 | [84][85] | |
1QM | Fragment of the 1QM or "War Scroll" or "Milhamah" | 1Q33 | Deuteronomy 20:2–5; Numbers 10:9, 24:17–19; Isaiah 31:8 | Hebrew | 30–1 BCE
Early Herodian |
[50][84] | |
1QPrFetes / 1QLitPr | "Liturgical Prayers" or "Festival Prayers" | 1Q34 | Hebrew | Herodian | [84][86] | ||
1QHb | "Hodayot" or "Thanksgiving Hymns" | 1Q35 | Hebrew | Herodian | [84][87] | ||
1Q Hymns | "Hymns" | 1Q36 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [84][88] | ||
1Q Hymnic Composition(?) | "Hymnic Composition" | 1Q37 | Hebrew | Herodian | [84][89] | ||
1Q Hymnic Composition(?) | "Hymnic Composition" | 1Q38 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [84][90] | ||
1Q Hymnic Composition(?) | "Hymnic Composition" | 1Q39 | Hebrew | Herodian | [84][91] | ||
1Q Hymnic Composition(?) | "Hymnic Composition" | 1Q40 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [84][92] | ||
1Q41–70 | 1Q41–70 | Hebrew | Unclassified Fragments | [93] | |||
1QDana | Daniel | 1Q71 | Daniel 1:10–17; 2:2–6 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [94] | |
1QDanb | 1Q72 | Daniel 3:22–30 | Aramaic | Hellenistic-Roman | [95] |
Cave 2
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 2 | |||||||
2QGen | Genesis | 2Q1 | Genesis 19:27–28; 36:6, 35–37 | Hebrew | Herodian | [96][97] | |
2QExoda | Exodus | 2Q2 | Exodus 1:11–14; 7:1–4; 9:27–29; 11:3–7; 12:32–41; 21:18–20(?); 26:11–13; 30:21(?), 23–25; 32:32–34 | [96][98] | |||
2QExodb | 2Q3 | Exodus 4:31; 12:26–27(?); 18:21–22; 21:37–22:2, 15–19; 27:17–19; 31:16–17; 19:9; 34:10 | [96][99] | ||||
2QExodc | 2Q4 | Exodus 5:3–5 | Hellenistic-Roman | [96][100] | |||
2QpaleoLev | Leviticus | 2Q5 | Leviticus 11:22–29 | Hasmonean; Palaeo-Hebrew script | [96][101] | ||
2QNuma | Numbers | 2Q6 | Numbers 3:38–41, 51– 4:3 | Hebrew | Herodian | [96][102] | |
2QNumb | 2Q7 | Numbers 33:47–53 | [96][103] | ||||
2QNumc | 2Q8 | Numbers 7:88 | [96][104] | ||||
2QNumd? | 2Q9 | Numbers 18:8–9 | Hellenistic-Roman | This fragment may belong to 2Q7; possibly = Leviticus 23:1–3 | [96][105] | ||
2QDeuta | Deuteronomy | 2Q10 | Deuteronomy 1:7–9 | Hebrew | 50–25 BCE
Late Hasmonean or Early Herodian |
[96][50] | |
2QDeutb | 2Q11 | Deuteronomy 17:12–15 | Hebrew | 30 BCE – 68 CE
Herodian |
[96][50] | ||
2QDeutc | 2Q12 | Deuteronomy 10:8–12 | Hebrew | 1–68 CE
Late Herodian |
[96][50] | ||
2QJer | Jeremiah | 2Q13 | Jeremiah 42:7–11, 14; 43:8–11; 44:1–3, 12–14; 46:27–47:7; 48:7, 25–39, 43–45; 49:10 | Hebrew | Herodian | Doubtfully identified fragments: 13:22; 32:24–25; 48:2–4, 41–42 | [106][107] |
2QPs | Psalms | 2Q14 | Psalm 103:2–11; 104:6–11 | [106][108] | |||
2QJob | Job | 2Q15 | Job 33:28–30 | [106][109] | |||
2QRutha | Ruth | 2Q16 | Ruth 2:13–23; 3:1–8; 4:3–4 | Hebrew | Herodian | [106][110] | |
2QRuthb | 2Q17 | Ruth 3:13–18 | Hasmonean | [106][111] | |||
2QSir | "Wisdom of Sirach" or "Ecclesiasticus" | 2Q18 | Sir 6:14–15 (or 1:19–20); 6:20–31 | Hebrew | Herodian | Ben Sira | [106][112] |
2QJuba | Book of Jubilees | 2Q19 | Genesis 25:7–9 | Hebrew | Herodian | Jub 23:7–8 | [106][113] |
2QJubb | Book of Jubilees | 2Q20 | Exodus 1:7; Genesis 50:26, 22 (different order) | Jub 46:1–3 | [114] | ||
2QapMoses /2QapocrMoses(?) | "Apocryphon of Moses" | 2Q21 | Hebrew | Herodian | Apocryphal writing about Moses | [106][115] | |
2QapDavid /2QapocrDavid | "Apocryphon of David" | 2Q22 | Hebrew | Herodian | Apocryphal writing about David | [116][117] | |
2QapProph /2Qapocr.Prophecy | "Apocryphal Prophecy" | 2Q23 | Hebrew | Herodian | Apocryphal prophetic text in six tiny fragments. | [118][119] | |
2QNJ | "New Jerusalem" | 2Q24 | Aramaic | Herodian | Description of the New Jerusalem. cf. 1Q32 ar, 11Q18 ar | [118][120] | |
2Q Juridical Text | "Juridical Text" | 2Q25 | Hebrew | Herodian | A juridical text | [118][121] | |
2QEnGiants | "Book of Giants" from "Enoch" | 2Q26 | Aramaic | Herodian | Now known as part of the "Book of Giants". cf. 6Q8 | [122] | |
2Q27
2Q28 2Q29 2Q30 2Q31 2Q32 2Q33 |
2Q27
2Q28 2Q29 2Q30 2Q31 2Q32 2Q33 |
Unidentified Texts | [93][118] | ||||
2QX1 | 2QX1 | Debris in a box | [118] |
Cave 3
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 3 | |||||||
3QEzek | Ezekiel | 3Q1 | Ezekiel 16:31–33 | Hebrew | Herodian | [118][123] | |
3QPs | Psalms | 3Q2 | Psalm 2:6–7 | Hebrew | [124][125] | ||
3QLam | Lamentations | 3Q3 | Lamentations 1:10–12; 3:53–62 | Hebrew | [124][126] | ||
3QpIsa | Pesher on Isaiah | 3Q4 | Isaiah 1:1 | Hebrew | Herodian | [124][127] | |
3QJub | Jubilees | 3Q5 | Hebrew | Herodian | Jubilees 23:6–7, 12–13, 23 | [124][128] | |
3QHymn | Unidentified Hymn | 3Q6 | Hebrew | Herodian | Hymn of Praise | [124][129] | |
3QTJud(?) | Testament of Judah(?) | 3Q7 | Hebrew | Herodian | cf. 4Q484, 4Q538 | [124][130] | |
3Q Text Mentioning Angel of Peace | 3Q8 | Hebrew | Herodian | Text about an Angel of Peace | [124][131] | ||
3QSectarian text | 3Q9 | Hebrew | Herodian | Possible unidentified Sectarian text | [124][132] | ||
3QUnc | Unidentified | 3Q10
3Q11 |
Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Unclassified fragments | [124] | |
3QUncA-B | Unclassified fragments | 3Q12
3Q13 |
Aramaic | Hellenistic-Roman | Unclassified fragments | [133] | |
3QUncC | Unidentified | 3Q14 | Hebrew? | Hellenistic-Roman | 21 unclassified fragments | [134][135] | |
3QCopScr | The Copper Scroll | 3Q15 | Hebrew | Roman | Copper plaque mentioning buried treasures | [134][136] |
Caves 4a and 4b
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Cave 4 was discovered in August 1952, and was excavated on 22–29 September 1952 by Gerald Lankester Harding, Roland de Vaux, and Józef Milik.[25][137] Cave 4 is actually two hand-cut caves (4a and 4b), but since the fragments were mixed, they are labeled as 4Q. Cave 4 is important both because of its visibility from the Qumran plateau and its productivity. It is visible from the plateau to the south of the Qumran settlement. It is by far the most productive of all Qumran caves, producing ninety percent of the Dead Sea Scrolls and scroll fragments (approx. 15,000 fragments from 500 different texts), including 9–10 copies of Jubilees, along with 21 tefillin and 7 mezuzot.
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 4 | |||||||
4QGen-Exoda | Genesis–Exodus | 4Q1 | Genesis 8:20–21; Exodus 1–4; 5:3–17; 6:4–21,25; 7:5–13,15–20; 8:20–22; 9:8; 22:14; 27:38–39,42–43; 34:17–21 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments from Genesis to Numbers | [134][138] |
4QGenb | Genesis | 4Q2 | Genesis 1:1–27; 2:14–19; 4:2–4; 5:13 | Hebrew | Roman | Fragment of Genesis | [134][139] |
4QGenc | 4Q3 | Genesis 40–41 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Genesis | [134][140] | |
4QGend | 4Q4 | Genesis 1:18–27 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Genesis on the Beginning of Creation | [134][141] | |
4QGene | 4Q5 | Genesis 36–37; 40–43; 49 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Genesis | [134][142] | |
4QGenf | 4Q6 | Genesis 48:1–11 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Genesis | [134][143] | |
4QGeng | 4Q7 | Genesis 1:1–11,13–22; 2:6–7 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Genesis about Creation | [134][144] | |
4QGenh/4QGenh1 | 4Q8 | Genesis 1:8–10 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Genesis about the beginning to early mankind. | [145][146] | |
4QGenh2 | 4Q8a | Genesis 2:17–18 | [145][147] | ||||
4QGenh-para | 4Q8b | Genesis 12:4–5 | A paraphrase of Genesis | [145][148] | |||
4QGenh-title | 4Q8c | Genesis | The title of a Genesis manuscript | [145][149] | |||
4QGenj | 4Q9 | Genesis 41–43; 45 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Genesis | [145][150] | |
4QGenk | 4Q10 | Genesis 1:9,14–16,27–28; 2:1–3; 3:1–2 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Genesis | [145][151] | |
4QpaleoGen-Exodl | Paleo-Genesis/Exodus | 4Q11 | Genesis 50:26; Exodus 1:1–5; 2:10,22–25; 3:1–4,17–21; 8:13–15, 19–21; 9:25–29, 33–35; 10:1–5; 11:4–10; 12:1–11, 42–46; 14:15–24; 16:2–7, 13–14,18–20,23–25,26–31,33–35; 17:1–3,5–11; 18:17–24; 19:24–25; 20:1–2; 22:23–24; 23:5–16; 25:7–20; 26:29–37; 27:1, 6–14; 28:33–35,40–42; 36:34–36 | Hebrew | Hasmonean; Paleo-Hebrew script | Fragments of Genesis and Exodus | [145][152] |
4QpaleoGenm | Paleo-Genesis | 4Q12 | Genesis 26:21–28; Exodus 6:25–30; 7:1–19,29; 8:1,5,12–26; 9:5–16,19–21,35; 10:1–12,19–28; 11:8–10; 12:1–2,6–8,13–15,17–22,31–32,34–39; 13:3–7,12–13; 14:3–5,8–9,25–26; 15:23–27; 16:1,4–5,7–8,31–35; 17:1–16; 18:1–27; 19:1,7–17,23–25; 20:1,18–19; 21:5–6, 13–14,22–32; 22:3–4,6–7,11–13,16–30; 23:15–16,19–31; 24:1–4,6–11; 25:11–12,20–29,31–34; 26:8,15,21–30; 27:1–3,9–14,18–19; 28:3–4,8–12,22–24,26–28,30–43; 29:1–5,20,22–25,31–41; 30:10,12–18,29–31,34–38; 31:1–8,13–15; 32:2–19,25–30; 33:12–23; 34:1–3,10–13,15–18,20–24,27–28; 35:1; 36:21–24; 37:9–16 | Hebrew | Hasmonean; Paleo-Hebrew script | Fragment from Genesis | [145][153] |
4QExodb | Exodus | 4Q13 | Exodus 1:1–6,16–12; 2:2–18; 3:13 – 4:8; 5:3–14 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Exodus about Slavery in Egypt | [145][154] |
4QExodc | 4Q14 | Exodus 7:17–19,20–23; 7:26 – 8:1; 8:5–14,16–18,22; 9:10–11,15–20,22–25,27–35; 10:1–5,7–9,12–19,23–24; 11:9–10; 12:12–16,31–48; 13:18 – 14:3; 14:3–13; 17:1 – 18:12 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Exodus | [145][155] | |
4QExodd | 4Q15 | Exodus 13:15–16 followed directly by 15:1 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Exodus about the Passover and a Hymn | [145][156][157] | |
4QExode | 4Q16 | Exodus 13:3–5,15–16 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Exodus about the Passover and a Hymn | [145][155] | |
4QExod-Levf | Exodus–Leviticus | 4Q17 | Exodus 38:18–22; 39:3–19, 20–24; 40:8–27; Leviticus 1:13–15, 17–2:1 | Hebrew | Early Hellenistic | Fragments of Exodus and Leviticus | [158][159] |
4QExodg | Exodus | 4Q18 | Exodus 14:21–27 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Exodus | [158][160] |
4QExodh | 4Q19 | Exodus 6:3–6 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Exodus | [158][161] | |
4QExodj | 4Q20 | Exodus 7:28–8:2 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Exodus | [158][162] | |
4QExodk | 4Q21 | Exodus 36:9–10 | Hebrew | Roman | Fragments of Exodus | [158][163] | |
4QpaleoExodm (olim 4QExα) | Paleo-Exodus | 4Q22 | Exodus 6:25–7:19,29–8:1,[5],12–22; 9:5–16, 19–21, 35–10:12, 19–28; 11:8–12:2,6–8, 13–15, 17–22, 31–32, 34–39; 13:3–8, 12–13; ... 37:9–16 | Hebrew | Hasmonean; Paleo-Hebrew script | Fragments of Exodus; | [164][158] |
4QLev-Numa | Leviticus–Numbers | 4Q23 | Leviticus 13:32–33; 14:22–34, 40–54; 15:10–11, 19–24; 16:15–29;... 27:5–13;...35:4–5 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Leviticus | [158][165] |
4QLevb | Leviticus | 4Q24 | Leviticus 1:11–17; 2:1–15; 3:1, 8–14; 21:17–20, 24; 22:1–33; 23:1–25, 40; 24:2–23; 25:28–29, 45–49, 51–52 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Leviticus | [166][167] |
4QLevc | 4Q25 | Leviticus 1:1–7; 3:16–4:6, 12–14, 23–28; 5:12–13; 8:26–28 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Fragments of Leviticus | [168][169] | |
4QLevd | 4Q26 | Leviticus 14:27–29, 33–36; 15:20–24; 17:2–11 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Fragments of Leviticus | [168][170] | |
4QLeve | 4Q26a | Leviticus 2:4–6, 11–18; 3:2–4,5–8; 19:34–37; 20:1–3, 27–21:4, 9–12, 21–24; 22:4–6, 11–17 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Fragments of Leviticus | [93][168] | |
4QLevg | 4Q26b | Leviticus 7:19–26 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Fragments of Leviticus | [93][168] | |
4QNumb | Numbers | 4Q27 | Numbers 11:31–12:11; 13:7–24; 15:41–16:11, 14–16; 17:12–17; 18:25–19:6; 20:12–13,16–17,19–29; 21:1–2,12–13; 22:5–21, 31–34, 37–38, 41–23:6,13–15,21–22, 27–24:10; 25:4–8,16–18; 26:1–5,7–10,12,14–34,62–27:5,7–8,10,18–19,21–23; 28:13–17,28,30–31; 29:10–13,16–18,26–30; 30:1–3,5–9,15–16; 31:2–6, 21–25, 30–33,35–36,38,43–44,46–32:1,7–10,13–17,19,23–30,35,37–39,41; 33:1–4,23,25,28,31,45,47–48,50–52; 34:4–9,19–21,23; 35:3–5,12,14–15,18–25,27–28, 33–36:2,4–7 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Numbers. A few lines are written in red ink | [168][171] |
4QDeuta | Deuteronomy | 4Q28 | Deuteronomy 23:26–24:8 | Hebrew | 175–150 BCE
Transitional: Archaic to Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][168][172] |
4QDeutb | 4Q29 | Deuteronomy 29:24–27; 30:3–14; 31:9–17,24–30, 32:1–3 | Hebrew | 150–100 BCE
Early Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][168][173] | |
4QDeutc | 4Q30 | Deuteronomy 3:25–26; 4:13–17,31–32; 7:3–4; 8:1–5; 9:11–12, 17–19,29; 10:1–2,5–8; 11:2–4,9–13,18–19; 12:18–19,26,30–31; 13:5–7,11–12,16; 15:1–5,15–19; 16:2–3,5–11,20–17:7,15–18:1; 26:19— 27:2,24–28:14,18–20,22–25,29–30,48–50,61; 29:17–19; 31:16–19; 32:3 | Hebrew | 150–100 BCE
Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][174] | |
4QDeutd | 4Q31 | Deuteronomy 2:24–33; 3:14–29; 4:1 | Hebrew | 124–75 BCE
Middle Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeute | 4Q32 | Deuteronomy 3:24; 7:12–16,21–26; 8:1–16 | Hebrew | 50–25 BCE
Late Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeutf | 4Q33 | Deuteronomy 4:23–27; 7:22–26; 8:2–14; 9:6–7; 17:17–18; 18:6–10,18–22; 19:17–21; 20:1–6; 21:4–12; 22:12–19; 23:21–26; 24:2–7; 25:3–9; 26:18–27:10 | Hebrew | 75–50 BCE
Late Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeutg | 4Q34 | Deuteronomy 9:12–14; 23:18–20; 24:16–22; 25:1–5,14–19; 26:1–5; 28:21–25,27–29 | Hebrew | 1–25 CE
Middle Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeuth | 4Q35 | Deuteronomy 1:1–17,22–23,29–41,43–2:6,28–30; 19:21; 31:9–11; 33:9–22 | Hebrew | 50–1 BCE
Transitional: Hasmonean to Early Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeuti | 4Q36 | Deuteronomy 20:9–13; 21:23; 22:1–9; 23:6–8, 12–16, 22–26; 24:1 | Hebrew | 100–50 BCE
Late Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeutj | 4Q37 | Exodus 12:43–44, 46–51; 13:1–5; Deuteronomy 5:1–11, 13–15, 21–33; 6:1–3; 8:5–10; 11:6–10, 12–13; 30:17–18; 32:7–8 | Hebrew | 50 CE
Late Herodian |
Fragments of Exodus and Deuteronomy | [50][175] | |
4QDeutk1 | 4Q38 | Deuteronomy 5:28–31; 11:6–13; 32:17–18, 22–23, 25–27 | Hebrew | 30–1 BCE
Early Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175][176] | |
4QDeutk2 | 4Q38a | Deuteronomy 19: 8–16; 20: 6–19; 21:16; 23:22–26; 24:1–3; 25:19; 26:1–5, 18–19; 27:1 | Hebrew | 30–1 BCE
Early Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][175][176] | |
4QDeutk3 | 4Q38b | Deuteronomy 30: 16–18 | Hebrew | 50 CE
Late Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [177][176] | |
4QDeutl | 4Q39 | Deuteronomy 10:1,14–15; 28:67–68; 29:2–5; 31:12; 33:1–2; 34:4–6,8 | Hebrew | 50 CE
Late Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy about choosing Life or Death | [50][177] | |
4QDeutm | 4Q40 | Deuteronomy 3:18–22; 4:32–33; 7:18–22 | Hebrew | 50–1 BCE
Transitional: Hasmonean to Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][177] | |
4QDeutn | All Souls Deuteronomy | 4Q41 | Deuteronomy 5:1–33; 6:1; 8:5–10 | Hebrew | 30–1 BCE
Early Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][177] |
4QDeuto | Deuteronomy | 4Q42 | Deuteronomy 2:8; 4:30–34; 5:1–5, 8–9; 28:15–18, 33–36, 47–52, 58–62; 29:22–25 | Hebrew | 75–50 BCE
Late Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][177] |
4QDeutp | 4Q43 | Deuteronomy 6:4–11 | Hebrew | 75–50 BCE
Late Hasmonean |
Fragments of Deuteronomy about Loving God | [50][177] | |
4QDeutq | 4Q44 | Deuteronomy 32:9–10, 37–43 | Hebrew | 50 BCE–25 CE
Late Hasmonean or Early Herodian |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][177] | |
4QpaleoDeutr | Paleo-Deuteronomy | 4Q45 | Deuteronomy 7:2–7, 16–25; 11:28,30–12:1,11–12; 13:19; 14:19–22, 26–29; 15:5–6, 8–10; 19:2–3; 21:8–9; 22:3–6,12–15; 28:15–18, 20; 30:7–8; 32:2–8,10–11,13–14, 33–35; 33:2–8, 29; 34:1–2 | Hebrew | 100–25 BCE
Paleo-Hebrew script |
Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][177] |
4QpaleoDeuts | 4Q46 | Deuteronomy 26:14–15 | Hebrew | 250–200 BCE
Archaic Paleo-Hebrew script |
Fragments of Deuteronomy about giving Tithes | [50][177] | |
4QJosha | Joshua | 4Q47 | Joshua 8:34–35; 5:?,2–7; 6:5–10; 7:12–17; 8:3–14, 18?; 10:2–5, 8–11. | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Joshua | [177][178] |
4QJoshb | 4Q48 | Joshua 2:11–12; 3:15–16; 4:1–3; 17:11–15 | [179][180] | ||||
4QJudga | Judges | 4Q49 | Judges 6:2–6, 11–13 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Judges | [181][182] |
4QJudgb | 4Q50 | Judges 19:5–7; 21:12–25 | [181][183] | ||||
4QSama | Samuel | 4Q51 | 1 Samuel 1:9, 11–13, 17–18, 22–26, 28; 2:1–10,16–36; 3:1–4,18–21; 4:9–12; 5:8–12; 6:1–7,12–13,16–18,20–21; 7:1; 8:9–20; 9:6–8,11–12,16–24; 10:3–18,25–27; 11:1,7–12; 12:7–8,14–19; 14:24–25,28–34,47–51; 15:24–32; 17:3–6; 24:4–5,8–9,14–23; 25:3–12,20–21,25–26,39–40; 26:10–12,21–23; 27:8–12; 28:1–2,22–25; 30:28–30; 31:2–4; 2 Samuel 2:5–16,25–27,29–32; 3:1–8,23–39; 4:1–4,9–12; 5:1–3,6–16; 6:2–9,12–18; 7:23–29; 8:2–8; 10:4–7,18–19; 11:2–12,16–20; 12:4–5,8–9,13–20,30–31; 13:1–6,13–34,36–39; 14:1–3,18–19; 15:1–6,27–31; 16:1–2,11–13,17–18,21–23; 18:2–7,9–11; 19:7–12; 20:2–3,9–14,23–26; 21:1–2,4–6,15–17; 22:30–51; 23:1–6; 24:16–20 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel | [181][184] |
4QSamb | 4Q52 | 1 Samuel 16:1–11; 19:10–17; 20:27–42; 21:1–10; 23:9–17 | Hebrew | Early Hellenistic | Fragments of 1 Samuel | [181][185] | |
4QSamc | 4Q53 | 1 Samuel 25:30–32; 2 Samuel 14:7–33; 15:1–15 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel | [181][186] | |
4QKgs | Kings | 4Q54 | 1 Kings 7:31–41; 8:1–9,16–18 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of 1 Kings | [181][187] |
4QIsaa | Isaiah | 4Q55 | Isaiah 1:1–3; 2:7–10; 4:5–6; 6:4–7; 11:12–15; 12:4–6; 13:4–6; 17:9–14; 19:9–14; 20:1–6; 21:1–2,4–16; 22:13–25; 23:1–12 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Isaiah | [188][189] |
4QIsab | 4Q56 | Isaiah 1:1–6; 2:3–16; 3:14–22; 5:15–28; 9:10–11; 11:7–9; 12:2; 13:3–18; 17:8–14; 18:1,5–7; 19:1–25; 20:1–4; 21:11–14; 22:24–25; 24:2; 26:1–5,7–19; 35:9–10; 36:1–2; 37:2932; 39:1–8; 40:1–4,22–26; 41:8–11; 43:12–15; 44:19–28; 45:20–25; 46:1–3; 49:21–23; 51:14–16; 52:2,7; 53:11–12; 61:1–3; 64:5–11; 65:1; 66:24 | Hebrew | Herodian | [188][190] | ||
4QIsac | 4Q57 | Isaiah 9:3–12; 10:23–32; 11:4–11,15–16; 12:1; 14:1–5,13; 22:10–14; 23:8–18; 24:1–15,19–23; 25:1–2,8–12; 30:8–17; 33:2–8,16–23; 45:1–4,6–13; 48:10–13,17–19; 50:7–11; 51:1–16; 52:10–15; 53:1–3,6–8; 54:3–17; 55:1–6; 66:20–24 | Hebrew | [188][191] | |||
4QIsad | 4Q58 | Isaiah 46:10–13; 47:1–6,8–9; 48:8–22; 49:1–15; 52:4–7; 53:8–12; 54:1–11; 57:9–21; 58:1–3,5–7 | Hebrew | [188][192] | |||
4QIsae | 4Q59 | Isaiah 2:1–4; 7:17–20; 8:2–14; 9:17–20; 10:1–10; 11:14–15; 12:1–6; 13:1–4; 14:1–13,20–24; 59:15–16 | Hebrew | [188][193] | |||
4QIsaf | 4Q60 | Isaiah 1:10–16,18–31; 2:1–3; 5:13–14, 25; 6:3–8,10–13; 7:16–18,23–25; 8:1,4–11; 20:4–6; 22:14–22,25; 24:1–3; 27:1,5–6,8–12; 28:6–9,16–18,22,24; 29:8 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [188][194] | ||
4QIsag | 4Q61 | Isaiah 42:14–25; 43:1–4,17–24 | Hebrew | Herodian | [188][195] | ||
4QIsah | 4Q61 | Isaiah 42:4–11 | Hebrew | Herodian | [188] | ||
4QIsai | 4Q62 | Isaiah 56:7–8; 57:5–8 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [196][197] | ||
4QIsaj | 4Q63 | Isaiah 1:1–6 | Hebrew | Herodian | [196][198] | ||
4QIsak | 4Q64 | Isaiah 28:26–29:9 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [196][199] | ||
4QIsal | 4Q65 | Isaiah 7:14–15; 8:11–14 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [196][200] | ||
4QIsam | 4Q66 | Isaiah 60:20–61:1,3–6 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [196][201] | ||
4QIsan | Isaiah | 4Q67 | Isaiah 58:13–14 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Isaiah, including elements on punishment (4Q67) and God's blessings for his people (4Q67, 4Q69a). | [196][202] |
4QIsao | 4Q68 | Isaiah 14:28–15:2 | [196][203] | ||||
4QIsap | 4Q69 | Isaiah 5:28–30 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [196][204][205] | ||
4QIsaq | 4Q69a | Isaiah 54:10–13 | [196][205] | ||||
4QIsar | 4Q69b | Isaiah 30:23 | [196][205] | ||||
4QJera | Jeremiah | 4Q70 | Jeremiah 6:30?, 7:1–2, 15–19, 28–9:2, 7–15; 10:9–14, 23; 11:3–6, 19–20; 12:3–7, 13–16, 17; 13:1–7, 22–23? [or 22:3], 27; 14:4–7; 15:1–2; 17:8–26; 18:15–23; 19:1; 20:14–18; 21:1?; 22:3–16; 26:10? | Hebrew | 200 BCE – 1 BCE | Fragments of Jeremiah | [196][206][207] |
4QJerb | 4Q71 | Jeremiah 9:22–25; 10:1–21 | [206][207][208] | ||||
4QJerc | 4Q72 | Jeremiah 4:5, 13–16; 8:1–3, 21–23; 9:1–5; 10:12–13; 19:8–9; 20:2–5, 7–9, 13–15; 21:7–10; 22:4–6, 10–28; 25:7–8,15–17, 24–26; 26:10–13; 27:1–3, 13–15; 30:6–9, [10–17], 17–24; 31:1–14, 19–26; 33:?, 16–20 | [206][207][208] | ||||
4QJerd (olim 4QJerb) | 4Q72a | Jeremiah 43:2–10 | [206][207][208] | ||||
4QJere (olim 4QJerb) | 4Q72b | Jeremiah 50:4–6 | [206][207][208] | ||||
4QEzea | Ezekiel | 4Q73 | Ezekiel 10:5–16, 17–22; 11:1–11; 23:14–15, 17–18, 44–47; 41:3–6 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Ezekiel | [208][209] |
4QEzeb | 4Q74 | Ezekiel 1:10–13, 16–17, 19–24 | [208][210][211] | ||||
4QEzec | 4Q75 | Ezekiel 24:2–3 | [208][212] | ||||
4QXIIa | The Twelve Minor Prophets | 4Q76 | Zechariah 14:18; Malachi 2:10–3:24; Jonah 1:1–5, 7–2:1, 7; 3:2 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of the Twelve Minor Prophets | [208][213] |
4QXIIb | 4Q77 | Zephaniah 1:1–2; 2:13–15; 3:19–20; Haggai 1:1–2; 2:2–4 | [208][214] | ||||
4QXIIc | 4Q78 | Hosea 2:13–15; 3:2–4; 4:1–19; 5:1; 7:12–13; 13:3–10, 15; 14:1–6; Joel 1:10–20; 2:1, 8–23; 4:6–21; Amos 1:1?; 2:11–16; 3:1–15; 4:1–2; 6:13–14; 7:1–16; Zephaniah 2:15; 3:1–2; Malachi 3:6–7? | [208][215] | ||||
4QXIId | 4Q79 | Hosea 1:6–2:5 | [216][217] | ||||
4QXIIe | 4Q80 | Haggai 2:18–19, 20–21; Zechariah 1:4–6, 8–10, 13–15; 2:10–14; 3:2–10; 4:1–4; 5:8–6:5; 8:2–4, 6–7, 12:7–12 | [216][218] | ||||
4QXIIf | 4Q81 | Jonah 1:6–8, 10–16; Micah 5:1–2 | [216][219] | ||||
4QXIIg | 4Q82 | Hosea 2:1–5,14–19, 22–25; 3:1–5; 4:1, 10–11, 13–14; 6:3–4, 8–11; 7:1, 12–13, 13–16; 8:1; 9:1–4, 9–17; 10:1–14; 11:2–5, 6–11; 12:1–15; 13:1, 6–8?, 11–13; 14:9–10; Joel 1:12–14; 2:2–13 4:4–9, 11–14, 17, 19–20; Amos 1:3–15; 2:1, 7–9, 15–16; 3:1–2; 4:4–9; 5:1–2, 9–18; 6:1–4, 6–14; 7:1, 7–12, 14–17; 8:1–5, 11–14; 9:1, 5–6, 14–15; Obadiah 1–5, 8–12, 14–15; Jonah 1:1–9; 2:3–11; 3:1–3; 4:5–11; Micah 1:7,
12–15; 2:3–4; 3:12; 4:1–2; 5:6–7 (7–8); 7:2–3, 20; Nahum 1:7–9; 2:9–11; 3:1–3, 17; Habakkuk 2:4?; Zephaniah 3:3–5; Zechariah 10:11–12; 11:1–2; 12:1–3 |
[216][220] | ||||
4QPsa | Psalms | 4Q83 | Psalm 5:9–13; 6:1–4; 25:15; 31:24–25; 33:1–12; 35:2,14–20,26–28; 36:1–9; 38:2–12,16–23; 47:2; 53:4–7; 54:1–6; 56:4; 62:13; 63:2–4; 66:16–20; 67:1–7; 69:1–19; 71:1–14 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Psalms. | [216][221] |
4QPsb | 4Q84 | Psalm 91:5–8,12–15; 92:4–8,13–15; 93:5; 94:1–4,8–14,17–18,21–22; 96:2; 98:4; 99:5–6; 100:1–2; 102:5,10–29; 103:1–6,9–14,20–21; 112:4–5; 113:1; 115:2–3; 116:17–19; 118:1–3,6–11,18–20,23–26,29 | Hebrew | Herodian | [216][222] | ||
4QPsc & 4QPst[n 1] | 4Q85 / 4Q98c | Psalm 16:7–9; 18:3–14,16–18,33–41; 27:12–14; 28:1–2,4; 35:27–28; 37:18–19; 45:8–11; 49:1–17; 50:14–23; 51:1–5; 52:6–11; 53:1 Psalm 88:15–17 | Hebrew | Herodian | [216] [223][224][225] | ||
4QPsd | 4Q86 | Psalm 146:10; 147:1–3,13–17,20; 104:1–5,8–11,14–15,22–25,33–35 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [226][227] | ||
4QPse | 4Q87 | Psalm 76:10–12; 77:1; 78:6–7,31–33; 81:2–3; 86:10–11; 88:1–4; 89:44–46,50–53; 104:1–3,20–21; 105:22–24,36–45; 109:13; 115:15–18; 116:1–3; 120:6; 125:2–5; 126:1–5; 129:8; 130:1–3 | Hebrew | Herodian | [226][228] | ||
4QPsf | 4Q88 | Psalm 22:14–17; 107:2–4,8–11,13–15,18–19,22–30,35; 109:4–6, 25–28; Apostrophe to Zion; Apostrophe to Judah; Eschatological Hymn | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [226][229] | ||
4QPsg | 4Q89 | Psalm 119:37–43,44–46,49–50,73,81–83,90 | Hebrew | Herodian | [226][230] | ||
4QPsh | 4Q90 | Psalm 119:10–21 | Hebrew | Herodian | [226][231] | ||
4QPsj | 4Q91 | Psalm 48:1–7; 49:6,9–12,15,17 | Hebrew | Herodian | [226][232] | ||
4QPsk | 4Q92 | Psalm 26:7–12; 27:1; 30:9–13; 135:7–16; | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [226][233] | ||
4QPsl | 4Q93 | Psalm 104:3–5,11–12 | Hebrew | Herodian | [226][234] | ||
4QPsm | 4Q94 | Psalm 93:3–5; 95:3–6; 97:6–9; 98:4–8 | Hebrew | Herodian | [226][235] | ||
4QPsn | 4Q95 | Psalm 135:6–9,11–12; 136:23–24 | Hebrew | Herodian | [236][223] | ||
4QPso | 4Q96 | Psalm 114:7; 115:1–2,4; 116:3, 5, 7–10 | Hebrew | Herodian | [223][237] | ||
4QPsp (olim 4Q237) | 4Q97 | Psalm 143:2–4, 6–8 | Hebrew | Herodian | [223][238] | ||
4QPsq | Psalms | 4Q98 | Psalm 31:24–25; 33:1–18; 35:4–20 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Psalms, including elements on putting one's hope in God (4Q98d), the earth shaking at the presence of God (4Q98e), the blessings of God's Children and the struggle of the wicked (4Q98f). | [223] |
4QPsr | 4Q98a | Psalm 26:7–12; 27:1; 30:9–13 | [223][239] | ||||
4QPss | 4Q98b | Psalm 5:8–13; 6:1 | [223] | ||||
*4QPst (see 4QPsc) | *4Q98c | Psalm 88:15–17 | [223] | ||||
4QPsu | 4Q98d | Psalm 42:5 | [223] | ||||
4QPsv (olim 4QPsu frg. 2) | 4Q98e | Psalm 99:1 | [223] | ||||
4QPsw | 4Q98f | Psalm 112:1–9 | [223] | ||||
4QPsx (olim 4Q236) | 4Q98g | Psalm 89:20–22, 26, 23, 27–28, 31 | [223] | ||||
4QJoba | Job | 4Q99 | Job 31:14–19; 32:3–4; 33:10–11, 24–26, 28–30; 35:16; 36:7–11, 13–27, 32–33; 37:1–5, 14–15 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Job | [240] |
4QJobb | 4Q100 | Job 8:15–17; 9:27; 13:4; 14:4–6; 31:20–21 | Herodian | [241][242] | |||
4QpaleoJobc | Paleo-Job | 4Q101 | Job 13:18–20, 23–27; 14:13–18 | Hebrew | Early Hellenistic; Paleo-Hebrew script | Fragment of Job | [241][243] |
4QProva | Proverbs | 4Q102 | Proverbs 1:27–33; 2:1 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Proverbs | [241][244] |
4QProvb | 4Q103 | Proverbs 13:6–9; 14:5–10, 12–13, 31–35; 15:1–8, 19–31; 7:9, 11? | Hebrew | Herodian | [241][245] | ||
4QRutha | Ruth | 4Q104 | Ruth 1:1–12 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Ruth | [241][246] |
4QRuthb | 4Q105 | Ruth 1:1–6, 12–15 | Hebrew | Herodian | [241][247] | ||
4QCanta | Canticles (Song of Songs) | 4Q106 | Song of Songs 3:4–5, 7–11; 4:1–7; 6:11?–12; 7:1–7 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Pesher on Song of Songs/Canticles, including an introduction (4Q106). | [241][248] |
4QCantb | 4Q107 | Song of Songs 2:9–17; 3:1–2, 5, 9–11; 4:1–3, 8–11, 14–16; 5:1 | Hebrew | Herodian | [241][249] | ||
4QCantc | 4Q108 | Song of Songs 3:7–8 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [241][250] | ||
4QQoha | Ecclesiastes | 4Q109 | Ecclesiastes 5:13–17; 6:1?,3–8,12; 7:1–10,19–20 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Ecclesiastes | [251][252] |
4QQohb | 4Q110 | Ecclesiastes 1:10–15 | Hebrew | Herodian | [251][253] | ||
4QLam | Lamentations | 4Q111 | Lamentations 1:1–15, 17, 16, 18; 2:5 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of Lamentations | [251][254] |
4QDana | Daniel | 4Q112 | Daniel 1:16–20; 2:9–11, 19–49; 3:1–2; 4:29–30; 5:5–7, 12–14, 16–19; 7:5–7, 25–28; 8:1–5; 10:16–20; 11:13–16 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Daniel | [251][255] |
4QDanb | 4Q113 | Daniel 5:10–12, 14–16, 19–22; 6:8–22, 27–29; 7:1–6, 11?, 26–28; 8:1–8, 13–16 | Hebrew | Herodian | [251][256] | ||
4QDanc | 4Q114 | Daniel 10:5–9, 11–16, 21; 11:1–2, 13–17, 25–29 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [251][257] | ||
4QDand | 4Q115 | Daniel 3:8–10?, 23–25; 4:5–9, 12–16; 7:15–23 | Hebrew | Herodian | [251][258] | ||
4QDane | 4Q116 | Daniel 9:12–17 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [251][259] | ||
4QEzra | Ezra | 4Q117 | Ezra 4:2–6, 9–11; 5:17; 6:1–5 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Ezra-Nehemiah | [251][260] |
4QChr/4QChron | Chronicles | 4Q118 | 2 Chronicles 28:27; 29:1–3 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments of 2 Chronicles | [251][261] |
4QLXXLeva gr | Septuagint Leviticus | 4Q119 | Leviticus 26:2–16 | Greek | Hasmonean | Fragments of Leviticus | [262][263] |
4QpapLXXLevb/ pap4QLXXLevb gr | 4Q120 | Leviticus 1:11; 2:3–5, 7–8?; 3:4, 7, 9–14; 4:3–4, 6–8, 10–11, 18–19, 26–28, 30; 5:6, 8–10, 16–24; [6:1–5] | Greek | Hasmonean | 97 fragments of Leviticus. Contains ΙΑΩ for the tetragrammaton | [262][264] | |
4QLXXNumb gr | Septuagint Numbers | 4Q121 | Numbers 3:40–43,50–51?; 4:1?,5–9,11–16; 3:39? | Greek | Herodian | Fragments of Numbers | [262][265] |
4QLXXDeut gr | Septuagint Deuteronomy | 4Q122 | Deuteronomy 11:4 | Greek | Early Hellenistic | Fragments of Deuteronomy | [50][262][266] |
4QpaleoparaJosh | Paraphrase on Joshua | 4Q123 | Joshua | Hebrew | Paleo-Hebrew script | "Rewritten Joshua" | [262][267] |
4QUnid gr | Unidentified text | 4Q126 | — | Greek | Herodian | Fragmentary religious text | [268][269] |
4Qpap paraExod / pap4QParaExod gr | Paraphrase on Exodus | 4Q127 | Exodus | Greek | Herodian | "Rewritten Exodus" | [262][270] |
4Qphyla | Phylactery Scrolls | 4Q128 | Deuteronomy 5:1–14,27–6:3; 10:12–11:21; Exodus 12:43–13:7 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Fragments of Deuteronomy and Exodus. | [50][271][272] |
4Qphylb | 4Q129 | Exodus 13:9–16 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][273][274] | ||
4Qphylc | 4Q130 | Exodus 13:13–16; Deuteronomy 6:4–9; 11:13–21 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][273][275] | ||
4Qphyld | 4Q131 | Deuteronomy 11:13–21 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][273][276] | ||
4Qphyle | 4Q132 | Exodus 13:1–10 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [273][277] | ||
4Qphylf | 4Q133 | Exodus 13:11–16 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [273][278] | ||
4Qphylg | 4Q134 | Deuteronomy 5:1–21; Exodus 13:11–12 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][273][279] | ||
4Qphylh | 4Q135 | Deuteronomy 5:22–6:5; Exodus 13:14–16 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][273][280] | ||
4Qphyli | 4Q136 | Deuteronomy 6:6–7; 11:13–21; Exodus 12:43–13:10 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][273][281] | ||
4Qphylj (olim 4Qphyla) | 4Q137 | Deuteronomy 5:24–32; 6:2–3 | Hebrew | [50][273] | |||
4Qphylk | 4Q138 | Deuteronomy 10:12–11:17 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][283] | ||
4Qphyll | 4Q139 | Deuteronomy 5:7–24 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][284] | ||
4Qphylm | 4Q140 | Exodus 12:44–13:10; Deuteronomy 5:33–6:5 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][285] | ||
4Qphyln | 4Q141 | Deuteronomy 32:14–20, 32–33 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][286] | ||
4Qphylo | 4Q142 | Deuteronomy 5:1–16, 6:7–9 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][287] | ||
4Qphylp | 4Q143 | Deuteronomy 10:22–11:3,18–21 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][288] | ||
4Qphylq | 4Q144 | Exodus 13:4–9; Deuteronomy 11:4–18 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][289] | ||
4Qphylr | 4Q145 | Exodus 13:1–10 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [282][290] | ||
4QPhyls | 4Q146 | Deuteronomy 11:19–21 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [50][282][291] | ||
4Qphylt | 4Q147 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Could not be deciphered | [282][292] | ||
4Qphylu | 4Q148 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [282][293] | |||
4QMeza | Mezuzah Scrolls | 4Q149 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Fragments of Exodus and Deuteronomy | [294][295] | |
4QMezb | 4Q150 | Deuteronomy 6:5–6; 10:14–11:2 | Hebrew | Herodian | [296][297] | ||
4QMezc | 4Q151 | Deuteronomy 5:27–6:9; 10:12–20 | Hebrew | Herodian | [296][298] | ||
4QMezd | 4Q152 | Deuteronomy 6:5–7 | Hebrew | Herodian | [296][299] | ||
4QMeze | 4Q153 | Deuteronomy 11:17–18 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [296][300] | ||
4QMezf | 4Q154 | Deuteronomy 13:1–4 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [296][301] | ||
4QMezg | 4Q155 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [296][302] | |||
4QtgLev | Targum of Leviticus | 4Q156 | Leviticus 16:12–15,18–21 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | Fragments of Leviticus | [303][304] |
4QtgJob | Targum of Job | 4Q157 | Job 3:5–6; 4:17–5:4 | Aramaic | Herodian | Fragments of Job | [303][305][306] |
4QRPa | Reworked Pentateuch A | 4Q158 | Genesis 32:25–30; 32:31 ?; Exodus 3:12; 4:27–28; 19:17–23; 24:4–6; 20:12–17,19–21 (Samaritan), 22–26; 21:15–25, 32–37; 22:1–13; 30:32.34; Deuteronomy 5:30–31; 21:1–10 | Hebrew | Herodian | Reworked Pentateuch | [50][307][308][309] |
4QOrdinancesa | Ordinances A | 4Q159 | Hebrew | Herodian | Non-biblical composition | [309][310] | |
4QVisSam | Vision of Samuel | 4Q160 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Non-biblical composition | [309][311] | |
4QpIsaiaha | Pesher on Isaiah | 4Q161 | Hebrew | Herodian | Non-biblical composition | [312] | |
4QpIsaiahb | 4Q162 | Hebrew | Herodian | Non-biblical composition | [313] | ||
4QpHosA | Pesher on Hosea A | 4Q166 | Hebrew | Herodian | Hosea Commentary Scroll | [314][315][316] | |
4QpHosB | Pesher on Hosea B | 4Q167 | Hebrew | Herodian | [315][317] | ||
4QpMic(?) | Pesher on Micah? | 4Q168 | Hebrew | Herodian | Micah Commentary? | [315][318] | |
4QpNah | Pesher on Nahum | 4Q169 | Nahum 1:3–6; 2:12–14; 3:1–5, 6–9, 10–12, 14 | Hebrew | Herodian | Containing the term "The Seekers after Smooth Things" | [315][319] |
4Q Eschatological Commentary A | Florilegium or Midrash on the Last Days | 4Q174 | 2 Samuel 7:10–14 (1 Chronicles 17:9–13); Exodus 15:17–18; Amos 9:11; Psalm 1:1; Isaiah 8:11; Ezekiel 37:23?; Psalm 2:1; Daniel 12:10; 11:32; Deuteronomy 33:8–11, 12, 19–21 | Hebrew | Herodian | Quotations from biblical passages with midrashic commentary | [320][321] |
4QTest | Testimonia | 4Q175 | Deuteronomy 5:28–29; 18:18–19; 33:8–11
Numbers 24:15–17 Joshua 6:26, quoted in Psalms of Joshua (4Q379, frag. 22) |
Hebrew | Herodian; Hasmonean script | A list of quotations; Messianic Anthology or Testimonia | [50][320][322] |
4QapocrLamA | Apocryphal Lamentations A | 4Q179 | Lamentations | Hebrew | Herodian | cf. 4Q501 | [323] |
4Q Horoscope | Physiognomies/Horoscopes | 4Q186 | Hebrew | Herodian | [324] | ||
4QpapTobita | Tobit | 4Q196 | Tobit | Aramaic | Hasmonean | On Papyrus. cf. 4Q501 | [325] |
4QTobitb | Tobit | 4Q197 | Tobit | Aramaic | Herodian | cf. 4Q501 | [326] |
4QTobitc | Tobit | 4Q198 | Tobit | Aramaic | Hasmonean | cf. 4Q501 | [327] |
4QTobitd | Tobit | 4Q199 | Tobit | Aramaic | Hasmonean | cf. 4Q501 | [328] |
4QTobite | Tobit | 4Q200 | Tobit | Hebrew | Herodian | cf. 4Q501 | [329] |
4QEna | The Enoch Scroll | 4Q201a | Aramaic | Hasmonean | [314][330] | ||
4QALD / 4QLevia-f ar | The Aramaic Levi Document (ALD) | 4Q213 4Q213a 4Q213b 4Q214 4Q214a 4Q214b | Aramaic | Hasmonean | Multiple compositions | [331] | |
4QTNaph | Testament of Naphtali | 4Q215 | Hebrew | Herodian | [332][333] | ||
4QCanta(?) | Pesher on Canticles/Song of Songs | 4Q240 | Song of Songs | Hebrew | Herodian | Included in Milik's original list, but this fragment has never been located | [334] |
4QapocrDan | Aramaic Apocalypse or The Son of God Text | 4Q246 | Aramaic | Herodian | [335] | ||
4QCommentary on Gen A /4QCommGenA | Commentary/Pesher on Genesis | 4Q252 | Genesis 6:3; 7:10–8:18; 9:24–27; 11:31; 15:9, 17, 17:20?; 18:31–32 (with Deuteronomy 13:16, 17; 20:11, 14); 22:10–12; 28:3–4; 36:12; 49:3–4, 10 (with Jeremiah 33:17), 20–21 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragments/ commentary of Genesis. | [336][337] |
4QCommentary on Gen B /4QCommGenB | 4Q253 | Genesis | Hebrew | Herodian | [336][338] | ||
4QCommentary on Gen C /4QCommGenC | 4Q254 | Genesis 9:24–25; 22:5?, 17? | Hebrew | Herodian | [336][339] | ||
4QCommentary on Gen D (olim 4QpGenc) | 4Q254a–820 | Genesis 6:15 | Hebrew | Herodian | [336][340] | ||
4QSd | Serekh ha-Yahad or Community Rule | 4Q258 | Hebrew | Herodian | cf. 1QSd | [341] | |
4QD | The Damascus Document | 4Q265–273 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | cf. 4QDa/g = 4Q266/272, 4QDa/e = 4Q266/270, 5Q12, 6Q15, 4Q265–73 | [93] | |
4Q Sefer ha-Milhamah | Rule of War | 4Q285 | Hebrew | Herodian | cf. 11Q14 | [342] | |
4QMysta | The Book of Mysteries The Book of Secrets |
4Q299 | Hebrew | Herodian | [343] | ||
4QMystb | 4Q300 | Hebrew | Herodian | [344] | |||
4QMystc | The Book of Mysteries The Book of Secrets |
4Q301 | Hebrew | Herodian | [345] | ||
4QRPb | Reworked Pentateuch | 4Q364 | Genesis 25:18–21; 26:7–8; 27:39; 28:6; 29:32–33; 30:8–14,26–36; 31:47–53; 32:18–20,26–30; 34:2; 35:28; 37:7–8; 38:14–21; 44:30–34; 45:1,21–27; 48:14–15; Exodus 21:14–22; 19:17; 24:12–14,18; 25:1–2; 26:1,33–35; Numbers 14:16–20; 33:31–49; 20:17–18; Deuteronomy 2:8–14, 30–37; 3:2,18–23; 9:6–7,12–18, 21–25,27–29; 10:1–4, 6–7, 10–13,22; 11:1–2,6–9,23–24; 14:24–26 | Hebrew | Late Hasmonean or Herodian | Reworked Pentateuch | [50][307][346][347] |
4QRPc | 4Q365 | Exodus 8:13–19; 9:9–12; 10:19–20; 14:10,12–21; 15:6-[21],22–26; 17:3–5; 18:13–16; 26:34–36; 28:16–20; 29:20–22; 30:27–38; 31:1–2; 35:[2]–5; 36:32–38; 37:29; 38:1–7; 39:1–19; Leviticus 11:1[3],17-[25],32-[33],[39]-[46]; 13:6–8,15-[19],51–52; 16:6–7; 18:[25]-[29]; 23:42–44; 24:1–2; 25:7–9; 26:17–32; 27:34; Numbers 1:1–5; 3:26–30; 4:47–49; 7:1,78–80; 8:11–12; 9:15–23; 10:1-[4]; 13:[11]–25,[28]–30; 15:26-[29]; 17:20–24; 27:11; 36:1–2; Deuteronomy 2:24; 19:20–21; 20:1 | Hebrew | Late Hasmonean/ Early Herodian | [50][307][348][349] | ||
4QRPd | 4Q366 | Exodus 21;35–37; 22:1–5; Leviticus 24:20–22; 25:39–43; Numbers 29:14-[25], 32–39; 30:1; Deuteronomy 16:13–14; 14:[13]–21 | Hebrew | Herodian | [50][307][348][350] | ||
4QRPe | 4Q367 | Leviticus 11:47; 12:1–8; 13:1; 15:14–15; 19:1–4,9–15; 20:13; 27:30–34 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [307][348][351] | ||
4QapocrJosha | Apocryphon of Joshua | 4Q378 | Hebrew | Herodian | Texts drawing on the content of Joshua, Exodus and Numbers. | [352] | |
4QapocrJoshb | 4Q379 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [353] | |||
4QpsEzek | Pseudo-Ezekiel | 4Q385 4Q385b 4Q385c 4Q386 4Q388 4Q391 |
Hebrew | Herodian | [354] | ||
4QMMT /4Q Cal.Doc.D | Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah or Some Precepts of the Law or the Halakhic Letter | 4Q394–399 | Hebrew | Herodian | [355] | ||
4Q Non-Canonical Psalms A | Songs of Sabbath Sacrifice or the Angelic Liturgy | 4Q400–407 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | cf. 11Q5–6 | [356] | |
4QInstruction | Sapiential Work A | 4Q415–418 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
4QParaphrase | Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus | Hebrew | |||||
4Q Barkhi Nafshia | Barkhi Nafshi – Apocryphal Psalms | 4Q434 | Hebrew | Herodian | 15 fragments: likely hymns of thanksgiving praising God for his power and expressing thanks | [357] | |
4Q Apocr. Psalm and Prayer | Hymn to King Jonathan or The Prayer For King Jonathan Scroll | 4Q448 | Psalms 154 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | In addition to parts of Psalms 154 it contains a prayer mentioning "King Jonathan". | [93] |
4QpapGen or papJub | pap-Genesis or pap-Jubilees | 4Q483 | Genesis 1:28–29, or Book of Jubilees | Hebrew | Herodian | [358] | |
4QShira-b | Songs of the Sage or Songs of the Maskil |
4Q510–511 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
4Q Messianic Apocalypse | Messianic Apocalypse | 4Q521 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Made up of two fragments | [359] | |
4Q Jonathan | 4Q523 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | MeKleine Fragmente, z.T. gesetzlichen Inhalts; Fragment is legal in content. PAM number, 41.944 | [360][361] | ||
4QTempleScrollb | Temple Scroll | 4Q524 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [93][362] | ||
4QBeatitudes | 4Q525 | Sirach 25:10;[363] Matthew 5:3 –12 (Beatitudes) | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
4Q TJoseph | Testament of Joseph | 4Q539 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | [364] | ||
4QapocrLevi(?)b | Testament of Levid | 4Q541 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | Aramaic frag. also called "4QApocryphon of Levib ar" | [365] | |
4QTKohath (4QTQahat) | Testament of Qahat | 4Q542 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | [366] | ||
4QNJc | New Jerusalem | 4Q555 | Aramaic | Herodian | cf. 1Q32, 2Q24, 5Q15, 11Q18 | [367] | |
4QGenn | Genesis | 4Q576 | Genesis 34:7–10; 50:3 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [93] | |
Unnumbered | Hebrew | Nine unopened fragments recently rediscovered in storage | [368] |
Cave 5
Cave 5 was discovered alongside Cave 6 in 1952, shortly after the discovery of Cave 4. Cave 5 produced approximately 25 manuscripts.[25]
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 5 | |||||||
5QDeut | Deuteronomy | 5Q1 | Deuteronomy 7:15–24; 8:5–9:2 | Hebrew | Early Hellenistic | [50][369][370] | |
5QKgs | Kings | 5Q2 | 1 Kings 1:1,16–17,27–37 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | [371][372] | |
5QIsa | Isaiah | 5Q3 | Isaiah 40:16,18–19 | Hebrew | Herodian | [371][373] | |
5QAmos | Amos | 5Q4 | Amos 1:2–5 | Hebrew | [371] | ||
5QPs | Psalms | 5Q5 | Psalm 119:99–101,104,113–20,138–42 | Hebrew | Herodian | [371][374] | |
5QLama | Lamentations | 5Q6 | Lamentations 4:5–8,11–16,19–22; 5:1–13,16–17 | Hebrew | Herodian | [371][375] | |
5QLamb | 5Q7 | Lamentations 4:17–20 | Hebrew | Herodian | [371][376] | ||
5QPhyl | Phylactery | 5Q8 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Phylactery in its unopened case | [371][377] | |
5QapocrJosh or 5QToponyms | Toponyms | 5Q9 | Hebrew | Herodian | Seven fragments with names of places | [371][378] | |
5QapocrMal | Apocryphon of Malachi | 5Q10 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Apocryphon of Malachi | [371][379] | |
5QS | Rule of Community (Serek ha-Yahad) | 5Q11 | Hebrew | Herodian | [371][380] | ||
5QD | Damascus Document | 5Q12 | Hebrew | Herodian | Damascus Document | [371][381] | |
5QRule or 5QRégle | Rule of Community | 5Q13 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Fragments related to 1QS | [382][383] | |
5QCurses | Curses | 5Q14 | Hebrew | Herodian | Liturgical compositions with curses | [382][384] | |
5QNJ | New Jerusalem Scroll | 5Q15 | Aramaic | Hellenistic-Roman | Description of the New Jerusalem | [382][385] | |
5QUnid | Unidentified | 5Q16–5Q24 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Unidentified fragments | [382] | |
5QUnc | Unclassified | 5Q25 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Unclassified fragments | [382][386] |
Cave 6
Cave 6 was discovered alongside Cave 5 in 1952, shortly after the discovery of Cave 4. Cave 6 contained fragments of about 31 manuscripts.[25]
List of groups of fragments collected from Wadi Qumran Cave 6:[387][388]
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 6 | |||||||
6QpaleoGen | Genesis | 6Q1 | Genesis 6:13–21 | Hebrew | Early Hellenistic; Palaeo-Hebrew script | [389][390] | |
6QpaleoLev | Leviticus | 6Q2 | Leviticus 8:12–13 | Hebrew | Early Hellenistic; Palaeo-Hebrew script | [389][391] | |
pap6QDeut or 6QpapDeut(?) | Deuteronomy | 6Q3 | Deuteronomy 26:19 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | A few letters of Deuteronomy 26:19 on papyrus | [389][50][392] |
6QpapKgs | Kings | 6Q4 | 1 Kings 3:12–14; 12:28–31; 22:28–31; 2 Kings 5:26; 6:32; 7:8–10,20; 8:1–5; 9:1–2; 10:19–21 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Made up of 94 Fragments. | [389][393] |
pap6QPs or 6QpapPs(?) | Psalms | 6Q5 | Psalm 78:36–37 | Hebrew | Herodian | [394][395] | |
6QCant | Song of Songs | 6Q6 | Song of Songs 1:1–7 | Hebrew | Herodian | [394][396] | |
6QpapDan | Daniel | 6Q7 | Daniel 8:20–21; 10:8–16; 11:33–36,38; 8:16–17 | Hebrew | Herodian | 13 papyrus fragments. | [394][397] |
6QpapGiants or pap6QEnGiants | Book of Giants from Enoch | 6Q8 | Aramaic | Herodian | Part of the "Book of Giants" | [394][398] | |
6Qpap apocrSam-Kgs or pap6QapocrSam/Kgs | Apocryphon on Samuel–Kings | 6Q9 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Samuel–Kings apocryphon. Written on papyrus. | [394][399] | |
6QpapaProph or pap6QProph | Unidentified prophetic fragment | 6Q10 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Prophetic text. Written in papyrus | [394][400] | |
6QAllegory | Allegory of the Vine | 6Q11 | Hebrew | Herodian | Fragment containing an Allegory mentioning a vine | [394][401] | |
6QapProph | An apocryphal prophecy | 6Q12 | Herodian | [394][402] | |||
6QPriestProph | Priestly Prophecy | 6Q13 | Herodian | A priestly prophecy | [394][403] | ||
6Q Apocalypse | Apocalyptic text | 6Q14 | Aramaic | Herodian | Two fragments with apocalyptic text | [394][404] | |
6QD | Damascus Document | 6Q15 | Hebrew | Herodian | Damascus Document 4:19–21; 5:13–14,18–21; 6:1–2,20–21; 7:1 | [394][405] | |
6QpapBened or pap6QBen | papBenediction | 6Q16 | Herodian | Blessings related 1QSb. On papyrus | [406][407] | ||
6QCalDoc | Calendrical Document | 6Q17 | Herodian | Calendric fragment | [406][408] | ||
pap6QHymn | Hymn | 6Q18 | Herodian | Fragment of a hymn, related to 1QM | [406][409] | ||
6Q Text Related to Genesis | Genesis | 6Q19 | Possibly from Genesis | Aramaic | Herodian | Related to Genesis 10:6,20 | [406][410] |
6QDeut(?) | Deuteronomy | 6Q20 | Possibly from Deuteronomy | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | Related to Deuteronomy 11:10 | [406][411] |
6QfrgProph or 6Q Prophetic Text | Possibly prophetic text | 6Q21 | Hebrew | Herodian | Prophetic fragment containing 5 words. | [406][412] | |
pap6QUnidA | Unclassified fragments | 6Q22 | Hebrew | Herodian | [406][413] | ||
pap6QUnidA ar | Unclassified fragments | 6Q23 | Aramaic | Herodian | Related to "Words of the Book of Michael" | [406][414] | |
6QUnidB | Unclassified fragments | 6Q24 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [406][415] | ||
6QUnidB | Unclassified fragments | 6Q25 | Aramaic | Herodian | [406][416] | ||
6QUnidB or 6QpapAccount or Contract | Accounts or contracts | 6Q26 | Aramaic | Hellenistic-Roman | [406][417] | ||
6QUnidB | Unclassified fragments | 6Q27–6Q28 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [406] | ||
6QpapProv | Proverbs | 6Q30 | Proverbs 11:4b–7a,10b | Hebrew | Roman | Single six-line fragment | [406][418] |
6QUnidB | Unclassified fragments | 6Q31 | Aramaic | Herodian | [406][419] |
Cave 7
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Cave 7 yielded fewer than 20 fragments of Greek documents, including 7Q2 (the "Letter of Jeremiah" = Baruch 6), 7Q5 (which became the subject of much speculation in later decades), and a Greek copy of a scroll of Enoch.[420][421][422] Cave 7 also produced several inscribed potsherds and jars.[423]
Lists of groups of fragments collected from Wadi Qumran Cave 7:[387][388]
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 7 | |||||||
7QpapLXXExod | Exodus | 7Q1 | Exodus 28:4–7 | Greek | Hasmonean | Greek fragment of Exodus | [424] |
7QpapEpJer | Letter of Jeremiah | 7Q2 | Letter of Jeremiah verses 43–44 | Greek | Hasmonean | Epistle of Jeremiah. On papyrus. | [425] |
7Q3 | Unidentified | 7Q3 | Greek | Herodian | Unknown biblical text | [426] | |
7Q4 | Unidentified | 7Q4 | Greek | Hasmonean | Unknown biblical text | [427] | |
7Q5 | Unidentified | 7Q5 | Greek | Herodian | Unknown biblical text. Believed by some to be Mark 6:52–53 | [428] | |
7Q6–18 | Unidentified | 7Q6–18 | Greek | Hellenistic-Roman; Herodian | Very tiny unidentified fragments written on papyrus | [93] | |
7Q papImprint | Unidentified | 7Q19 | Greek | Herodian | Unidentified papyrus imprint. Very tiny fragments written on papyrus | [429] |
Cave 8
Cave 8, along with caves 7 and 9, was one of the only caves that are accessible by passing through the settlement at Qumran. Carved into the southern end of the Qumran plateau, cave 8 was excavated by archaeologists in 1957.
Cave 8 produced five fragments: Genesis (8QGen), Psalms (8QPs), a tefillin fragment (8QPhyl), a mezuzah (8QMez), and a hymn (8QHymn).[430] Cave 8 also produced several tefillin cases, a box of leather objects, tons of lamps, jars, and the sole of a leather shoe.[423]
List of groups of fragments collected from Wadi Qumran Cave 8:[387][388]
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 8 | |||||||
8QGen | Genesis | 8Q1 | Genesis 17:12–13, 15, 18–19; 18:20–22, 24–25 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | |
8QPs | Psalms | 8Q2 | Psalm 17:5–9, 14; 18:5–12 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | |
8QPhyl | Phylacteries | 8Q3 | Exodus 13:1–16; 12:43–51; 20:11
Deuteronomy 6:4–5; 6:1–3; 10:20–22; 10:12–19; 5:1–14; 10:13; 11:2–3; 10:21–22; 11:1; 11:6–12 |
Hebrew | 1–100 CE
Herodian |
Fragments from a "Phylactery" | [50] |
8QMez | Mezuzah | 8Q4 | Deuteronomy 10:1–11:21 | Hebrew | 30 BCE–68 CE
Herodian |
[50] | |
8QHymn | Unidentified hymn | 8Q5 | Hebrew | Herodian | Non-biblical composition. | [93] |
Cave 9
Cave 9, along with caves 7 and 8, was one of the only caves that are accessible by passing through the settlement at Qumran. Carved into the southern end of the Qumran plateau, Cave 9 was excavated by archaeologists in 1957. There was only one fragment found in Cave 9.
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 9 | |||||||
9Qpap | Unidentified | 9Q1 | Hebrew | Roman | Written on papyrus. | [431] |
Cave 10
In Cave 10 archaeologists found two ostraca with writing on them, along with an unknown symbol on a grey stone slab.
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 10 | |||||||
10QOstracon | Ostracon | 10Q1 | Hebrew | Two letters written on a piece of pottery. | [18] |
Cave 11
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Cave 11 was discovered in 1956 and yielded 21 texts, some of which were quite long. The Temple Scroll, so called because more than half of it pertains to the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem, was found in Cave 11, and is by far the longest scroll. It is now 26.7 feet (8.15 m) long. Its original length may have been over 28 feet (8.75 m). The Temple Scroll was regarded by Yigael Yadin as "The Torah According to the Essenes". On the other hand, Hartmut Stegemann, a contemporary and friend of Yadin, believed the scroll was not to be regarded as such, but was a document without exceptional significance. Stegemann notes that it is not mentioned or cited in any known Essene writing.[432]
Also in Cave 11, an eschatological fragment about the biblical figure Melchizedek (11Q13) was found. Cave 11 also produced a copy of Jubilees, and a proto-Masoteric text of the Torah scroll (only a fragment of the Book of Leviticus surviving), known as the Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll.
According to former chief editor of the Dead Sea Scroll editorial team John Strugnell, there are at least four privately owned scrolls from Cave 11, that have not yet been made available for scholars. Among them is a complete Aramaic manuscript of the Book of Enoch.[433]
List of groups of fragments collected from Wadi Qumran Cave 11:
Fragment or scroll identifier | Fragment or scroll name | Alternative identifier | English Bible Association | Language | Date/script | Description | Reference |
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Qumran Cave 11 | |||||||
11QpaleoLeva | Paleo-Leviticusa | 11Q1 | Leviticus 4:24–26; 10:4–7; 11:27–32; 13:3–9; 13:39–43; 14:16–21; 14:52–15:5; 16:2–4; 16:34–17:5; 18:27–19:4; 20:1–6; 21:6–11; 22:21–27; 23:22–29; 24:9–14; 25:28–36; 26:17–26; 27:11–19 | Hebrew | Herodian/palaeo-Hebrew script | [93] | |
11QLevb | Leviticusb | 11Q2 | Leviticus | Hebrew | Herodian/palaeo-Hebrew script | [93] | |
11QDeut | Deuteronomy | 11Q3 | Deuteronomy 1:4–5; 2:28–30 | Hebrew | 50 CE
Late Herodian |
[50] | |
11QEzek | Ezekiel | 11Q4 | Ezekiel | Hebrew | Herodian | [434][435] | |
11QPs | The Great Psalms Scroll | 11Q5 | Psalms | Hebrew | Herodian | A unique Psalms scroll with only about a quarter of the Masoretic psalms (in atypical order), three Syriac psalms, one from Ben Sira, and the only known copies of three more unique psalms—Plea for Deliverance, Apostrophe to Zion, and Hymn to the Creator—all of which are unattested by other sources, as well as the short text of David's Compositions. | [93] |
11QPsa | Psalms | 11Q5 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QPsb | 11Q6 | Psalm 77:18–21; 78:1; 109:3–4; 118:1; 118:15–16; 119:163–165; 133:1–3; 141:10; 144:1–2 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QPsc | 11Q7 | Psalm 2:1–8; 9:3–7; 12:5–9; 13:1–6; 14:1–6; 17:9–15; 18:1–12; 19:4–8; 25:2–7 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QPsd | 11Q8 | Psalm 6:2–4; 9:3–6; 18:26–29; 18:39–42; 36:13; 37:1–4; 39:13–14; 40:1; 43:1–3; 45:6–8; 59:5–8; 68:1–5; 68:14–18; 78:5–12; 81:4–9; 86:11–14; 115:16–18; 116:1 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QPse | 11Q9 | Psalm 50:3–7 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QtgJob | Targum Job | 11Q10 | Job | Aramaic | Herodian | A unique Aramaic translation of the Book of Job; presents Job somewhat more favourably. | [93] |
11QapocrPs | Apocryphal Psalms | 11Q11 | Psalm 91 | Hebrew | Herodian | Apocryphal paraphrase of Psalms 91 | [93] |
11QJub | Jubilees | 11Q12 | Hebrew | Herodian | Ethiopic text of Jubilees 4:6–11; 4:13–14; 4:16–17; 4:29–31; 5:1–2; 12:15–17; 12:28–29 | [93] | |
11QMelch | Melchizedek | 11Q13 | Contains Pesher/commentary on Leviticus 25:13; Deuteronomy 15:2; Psalm 7:8–9; 82:2; Isaiah 52:7; Daniel 9:25; Leviticus 25:9 | Hebrew | 50–25 BCE or 75–50 BCE
Late Hasmonean or Early Herodian |
Describes a tenth jubilee and portrays Melchizedek as a messianic agent of salvation, using similar language to that used for Jesus in Hebrews, such as "Heavenly Prince Melchizedek" | [93][50] |
11Q Sefer ha-Milhamah | Sefer ha-Milhamah ("The Book of War") | 11Q14 | Hebrew | Herodian | An account of the final eschatological battle of the Israelites and the Kittim (Romans), including a messianic figure named the "Prince of the Congregation." | [93] | |
11QHymnsa | Hymns | 11Q15 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QHymnsb | 11Q16 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | |||
11QShirShabb | Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice | 11Q17 | Hebrew | Herodian | Collection of 13 hymns describing a heavenly temple service. | [93] | |
11QNJ | New Jerusalem | 11Q18 | Aramaic | Herodian | Appears to be an apocalyptic vision, including some architectural details of a very large city (cf. Ezekiel and Revelation) | [93] | |
11QTa | Temple Scroll | 11Q19 | Hebrew | Herodian | Rephrases the Pentateuch laws in the spirit of Deuteronomy, seeks to resolve biblical legal conflicts and expand ritual laws. | [93] | |
11QTb | Temple Scroll | 11Q20 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||
11QTc | 11Q21 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | |||
11Q Unidentified | Unidentified | 11Q22 | Hebrew | Hasmonean | Unidentified fragments. | [93] | |
11Q23 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [93] | ||||
11Q24 | Aramaic | Hasmonean | [93] | ||||
11Q25 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||||
11Q26 | Hebrew | Herodian | [93] | ||||
11Q27 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [93] | ||||
11Q28 | Hebrew | Hellenistic-Roman | [93] | ||||
11Q29 | Serekh ha-Yahad related | ||||||
11Q Unidentified | Unidentified | 11Q30 | Hebrew | Herodian | Unidentified fragments. | [93] | |
11Q Unidentified | Unidentified | 11Q31 | Unidentified fragment | [436] | |||
11Q9999 | Unidentified | Hellenistic-Roman | [93] |
Cave 12
Cave 12 was discovered in February 2017 on cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea.[29] Archaeological examination found pickaxes and empty broken scroll jars, indicating that the cave had been discovered and looted in the 1950s. One of the joint Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Liberty University of Virginia project's lead researchers, Oren Gutfeld, stated, "Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we 'only' found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen."[30]
Fragments with unknown provenance
Some fragments of scrolls have neither significant archaeological provenance nor records that reveal in which designated Qumran cave area they were found. They are believed to have come from Wadi Qumran caves, but are just as likely to have come from other archaeological sites in the Judaean Desert area.[437] These fragments have therefore been designated to the temporary "X" series.
Fragment/Scroll # | Fragment/Scroll Name | KJV Bible Association | Description |
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XQ1-3 | "Tefillin from Qumran" | Deuteronomy 5:1 – 6:3; 10:12 – 11:12.[437] | First published in 1969; Phylacteries |
XQ4 | "Tefillin from Qumran" | Phylacteries | |
XQ5a | Jubilees 7:4–5 | ||
XQ5b | Hymn | ||
XQ6 | Offering | Small fragment with only one word in Aramaic. | |
XQ7 | Unidentified fragment | Strong possibility that it is part of 4QInstruction. | |
XQpapEn | Book of Enoch 9:1 | One small fragment written in Hebrew. = XQ8 |
Gallery
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Dead Sea Scroll 175, complete, Testimonia, from Qumran Cave 4, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll 28a from Qumran Cave 1, complete, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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The War Scroll, found in Qumran Cave 1.
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A portion of the second discovered copy of the Isaiah Scroll, 1QIsab.
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Part of Dead Sea Scroll 28a from Qumran Cave 1. The Jordan Museum, Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll, Pesher Isaiah, from Qumran Cave 4. The Jordan Museum, Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll 175, Testimonia, from Qumran Cave 4. The Jordan Museum, Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll 109, Qohelet or Ecclesiastes, from Qumran Cave 4. The Jordan Museum, Amman
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Dead Sea Scrolls at the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Strips of the Copper Dead Sea Scroll at the Jordan Museum, from Qumran Cave 3, 1st century CE
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Strip 11 of the Copper Dead Sea Scroll, from Qumran Cave 3, Jordan Museum
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Strip 15 of the Copper Dead Sea Scroll, from Qumran Cave 3, Jordan Museum
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Strip 13 of the Copper Dead Sea Scroll, from Qumran Cave 3, Jordan Museum
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Strips 1 and 2 of the Copper Dead Sea Scroll, from Qumran Cave 3, Jordan Museum
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Dead Sea Scroll 109, Qohelet or Ecclesiastes, from Qumran Cave 4, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll 109, Qohelet or Ecclesiastes, from Qumran Cave 4, at the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll, Pesher Isaiah, from Qumran Cave 4, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll 175, Testimonia, from Qumran Cave 4, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Detail, Dead Sea Scroll 175, Testimonia, from Qumran Cave 4, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll 28a from Qumran Cave 1, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Part of Dead Sea Scroll 28a from Qumran Cave 1, the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Part of Dead Sea Scroll 28a from Qumran Cave 1, at the Jordan Museum in Amman
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Dead Sea Scroll fragment 5/6HEV PS found in the Cave of Letters at Nahal Hever
Origin
There has been much debate about the origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The dominant theory remains that the scrolls were produced by the Essenes, a sect of Jews living at nearby Qumran, but this theory has come to be challenged by several modern scholars.[438]
Qumran–Essene theory
The view among scholars, almost universally held until the 1990s, is the "Qumran–Essene" hypothesis originally posited by Roland Guérin de Vaux[439] and Józef Tadeusz Milik,[440] though independently both Eliezer Sukenik and Butrus Sowmy of St Mark's Monastery connected scrolls with the Essenes well before any excavations at Qumran.[441] The Qumran–Essene theory holds that the scrolls were written by the Essenes, or by another Jewish sectarian group, residing at Khirbet Qumran. They composed the scrolls and ultimately hid them in the nearby caves during the Jewish Revolt sometime between 66 and 68 CE. The site of Qumran was destroyed and the scrolls never recovered. A number of arguments are used to support this theory.
- There are striking similarities between the description of an initiation ceremony of new members in the Community Rule and descriptions of the Essene initiation ceremony mentioned in the works of Flavius Josephus, a Jewish-Roman historian of the Second Temple period.
- Josephus mentions the Essenes as sharing property among the members of the community, as does the Community Rule.
- During the excavation of Khirbet Qumran, two inkwells and plastered elements thought to be tables were found, offering evidence that some form of writing was done there. More inkwells were discovered nearby. De Vaux called this area the "scriptorium" based upon this discovery.
- Several Jewish ritual baths (Hebrew: מקוה, miqvah) were discovered at Qumran, offering evidence of an observant Jewish presence at the site.
- Pliny the Elder (a geographer writing after the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE) describes a group of Essenes living in a desert community on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea near the ruined town of 'Ein Gedi.
Qumran–Sectarian theory
Qumran–Sectarian theories are variations on the Qumran–Essene theory. The main point of departure from the Qumran–Essene theory is hesitation to link the Dead Sea Scrolls specifically with the Essenes. Most proponents of the Qumran–Sectarian theory understand a group of Jews living in or near Qumran to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls, but do not necessarily conclude that the sectarians are Essenes.
A specific variation on the Qumran–Sectarian theory emerged in the 1990s that has gained much recent popularity is the work of Lawrence H. Schiffman, who proposes that the community was led by a group of Zadokite priests (Sadducees).[442] The most important document in support of this view is the "Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah" (4QMMT), which cites purity laws (such as the transfer of impurities) identical to those attributed in rabbinic writings to the Sadducees. 4QMMT also reproduces a festival calendar that follows Sadducee principles for the dating of certain festival days.
Christian origin theory
Spanish Jesuit José O'Callaghan Martínez argued in the 1960s that one fragment (7Q5) preserves a portion of text from the New Testament Gospel of Mark 6:52–53.[443] This theory was scrutinized in the year 2000 by paleographic analysis of the particular fragment. However, this faced some contention, and O'Callaghan's theory remains an area of great dispute. Later analyses in 2004 and 2018 lent credence to O'Callaghan's original assertion.[citation needed]
Robert Eisenman has advanced the theory that some scrolls describe the early Christian community. Eisenman also argued that the careers of James the Just and Paul the Apostle correspond to events recorded in some of these documents.[444]
Jerusalem origin theory
Some scholars have argued that the scrolls were the product of Jews living in Jerusalem, who hid the scrolls in the caves near Qumran while fleeing from the Romans during the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE.[445] Karl Heinrich Rengstorf first proposed in the 1960s that the Dead Sea Scrolls originated at the library of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.[446] Later, Norman Golb suggested that the scrolls were the product of multiple libraries in Jerusalem, and not necessarily the Jerusalem Temple library.[447][448] Proponents of the Jerusalem origin theory point to the diversity of thought and handwriting among the scrolls as evidence against a Qumran origin of the scrolls. Several archaeologists have also accepted an origin of the scrolls other than Qumran, including Yizhar Hirschfeld[449] and more recently Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg,[450] who all understand the remains of Qumran to be those of a Hasmonean fort that was reused during later periods.
Physical characteristics
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Radiocarbon dating
Parchment from a number of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been carbon dated. The initial test performed in 1950 was on a piece of linen from one of the caves. This test gave an indicative dating of 33 CE plus or minus 200 years, eliminating early hypotheses relating the scrolls to the medieval period.[451] Since then two large series of tests have been performed on the scrolls themselves. The results were summarized by VanderKam and Flint, who said the tests give "strong reason for thinking that most of the Qumran manuscripts belong to the last two centuries BCE and the first century CE."[20]: 32
Paleographic dating
Analysis of letter forms, or palaeography, was applied to the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls by a variety of scholars in the field. Major linguistic analysis by Cross and Avigad dates fragments from 225 BCE to 50 CE.[452] These dates were determined by examining the size, variability, and style of the text.[453] The same fragments were later analyzed using radiocarbon dating and were dated to an estimated range of 385 BCE to 82 CE with a 68% accuracy rate.[452]
Ink and parchment
The scrolls were analyzed using a cyclotron at the University of California, Davis, where it was found that all black ink was carbon black.[454] The red ink on the scrolls was found to be made with cinnabar (HgS, mercury sulfide).[455] There are only four uses of this red ink in the entire collection of Dead Sea Scroll fragments.[455] The black inks found on the scrolls are mostly made of carbon soot from olive oil lamps.[456] Honey, oil, vinegar, and water were often added to the mixture to thin the ink to a proper consistency for writing.[456] Galls were sometimes added to the ink to make it more resilient.[456] In order to apply the ink to the scrolls, its writers used reed pens.[457]
The Dead Sea Scrolls were written on parchment made of processed animal hide known as vellum (approximately 85.5–90.5% of the scrolls), papyrus (estimated at 8–13% of the scrolls), and sheets of bronze composed of about 99% copper and 1% tin (approximately 1.5% of the scrolls).[457][458] For those scrolls written on animal hides, scholars with the Israeli Antiquities Authority, by use of DNA testing for assembly purposes, believe that there may be a hierarchy in the religious importance of the texts based on which type of animal was used to create the hide. Scrolls written on goat and calf hides are considered by scholars to be more significant in nature, while those written on gazelle or ibex are considered to be less religiously significant in nature.[459]
In addition, tests by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Sicily, Italy, have suggested that the origin of parchment of select Dead Sea Scroll fragments is from the Qumran area itself, by using X-ray and Particle-induced X-ray emission testing of the water used to make the parchment that were compared with the water from the area around the Qumran site.[460]
Preservation
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The Dead Sea Scrolls that were found were originally preserved by the dry, arid, and low humidity conditions present within the Qumran area adjoining the Dead Sea.[461] In addition, the lack of the use of tanning materials on the parchment of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the very low airflow in the Qumran caves also contributed significantly to their preservation.[462] Some of the scrolls were found stored in clay jars within the Qumran caves, further helping to preserve them from deterioration. The original handling of the scrolls by archaeologists and scholars was done inappropriately, and, along with their storage in an uncontrolled environment, they began a process of more rapid deterioration than they had experienced at Qumran.[463] During the first few years in the late 1940s and early 1950s, adhesive tape used to join fragments and seal cracks caused significant damage to the documents.[463] The government of Jordan had recognized the urgency of protecting the scrolls from deterioration and the presence of the deterioration among the scrolls.[464] However, the government did not have adequate funds to purchase all the scrolls for their protection and agreed to have foreign institutions purchase the scrolls and have them held at their museum in Jerusalem until they could be "adequately studied".[464]
In early 1953, they were moved to the Palestine Archaeological Museum (commonly called the Rockefeller Museum)[465] in East Jerusalem and through their transportation suffered more deterioration and damage.[20]: 63–65 The museum was underfunded and had limited resources with which to examine the scrolls, and, as a result, conditions of the "scrollery" and storage area were left relatively uncontrolled by modern standards.[20] The museum had left most of the fragments and scrolls lying between window glass, trapping the moisture in with them, causing an acceleration in the deterioration process. During a portion of the conflict during the 1956 war waged by Israel, Britain and France against Egypt, the scrolls collection of the Palestine Archaeological Museum was stored in the vault of the Ottoman Bank in Amman, Jordan.[466] Damp conditions from temporary storage of the scrolls in the Ottoman Bank vault from 1956 to the Spring of 1957 led to a more rapid rate of deterioration of the scrolls. The conditions caused mildew to develop on the scrolls and fragments, and some fragments were partially destroyed or made illegible by the glue and paper of the manila envelopes in which they were stored while in the vault.[466] By 1958 it was noted that up to 5% of some of the scrolls had completely deteriorated.[464] Many of the texts had become illegible and many of the parchments had darkened considerably.[20][463]
Until the 1970s, the scrolls continued to deteriorate because of poor storage arrangements, exposure to different adhesives, and being trapped in moist environments.[463] Fragments written on parchment (rather than papyrus or bronze) in the hands of private collectors and scholars suffered an even worse fate than those in the hands of the museum, with large portions of fragments being reported to have disappeared by 1966.[467] In the late 1960s, the deterioration was becoming a major concern with scholars and museum officials alike. Scholars John Allegro and Sir Francis Frank were among the first to strongly advocate for better preservation techniques.[20] Early attempts made by both the British and Israel Museums to remove the adhesive tape ended up exposing the parchment to an array of chemicals, including "British Leather Dressing," and darkening some of them significantly.[20] In the 1970s and 1980s, other preservation attempts were made that included removing the glass plates and replacing them with cardboard and removing pressure against the plates that held the scrolls in storage; however, the fragments and scrolls continued to rapidly deteriorate during this time.[463]
In 1991, the Israeli Antiquities Authority established a temperature-controlled laboratory for the storage and preservation of the scrolls. The actions and preservation methods of Rockefeller Museum staff were concentrated on the removal of tape, oils, metals, salt, and other contaminants.[463] The fragments and scrolls are preserved using acid-free cardboard and stored in solander boxes in the climate-controlled storage area.[463]
Nine tiny phylactery slips were rediscovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in 2014, after they had been stored unopened for six decades following their excavation in 1952. The IAA is preparing to unroll the phylacteries or tefillin once a safe procedure has been decided upon.[468][469]
Photography and assembly
Since the Dead Sea Scrolls were initially held by different parties during and after the excavation process, they were not all photographed by the same organization.
First photographs by the American Schools of Oriental Research (1948)
The first individual person to photograph a portion of the collection was John C. Trever (1916–2006), a biblical scholar and archaeologist, who was a resident for the American Schools of Oriental Research.[20]: 68 He photographed three of the scrolls discovered in Cave 1 on 21 February 1948, both on black-and-white and standard color film.[20]: 26 [470][471] Although an amateur photographer, the quality of his photographs often exceeded the visibility of the scrolls themselves as, over the years, the ink of the texts quickly deteriorated after they were removed from their linen wrappings.
Infrared photography and plate assembly by the Palestine Archaeological Museum (1952–1967)
A majority of the collection from the Qumran caves was acquired by the Palestine Archaeological Museum. The museum had the scrolls photographed by Najib Albina, a local Arab photographer trained by Lewis Larsson of the American Colony in Jerusalem,[472] Between 1952 and 1967, Albina documented the five-stage process of the sorting and assembly of the scrolls, done by the curator and staff of the Palestine Archaeological Museum, using infrared photography. Using a process known today as broadband fluorescence infrared photography, or NIR photography, Najib and the team at the museum produced over 1,750 photographic plates of the scrolls and fragments.[20]: 68 [473][474][475] The photographs were taken with the scrolls laid out on animal skin, using large format film, which caused the text to stand out, making the plates especially useful for assembling fragments.[20]: 68 These are the earliest photographs of the museum's collection, which was the most complete in the world at the time, and they recorded the fragments and scrolls before their further decay in storage, so they are often considered the best recorded copies of the scrolls.[476]
Israel Antiquities Authority and NASA digital infrared imaging (1993–2012)
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Beginning in 1993, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration used digital infrared imaging technology to produce photographs of Dead Sea Scrolls fragments.[477] In partnership with the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center and West Semitic Research, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully worked to expand on the use of infrared photography previously used to evaluate ancient manuscripts by expanding the range of spectra at which images are photographed.[478] NASA used this multi-spectral imaging technique, adapted from its remote sensing and planetary probes, in order to reveal previously illegible text on fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls.[478] The process uses a liquid crystal tunable filter in order to photograph the scrolls at specific wavelengths of light and, as a result, image distortion is significantly diminished.[477] This method was used with select fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal text and details that cameras that take photographs using a larger light spectrum could not reveal.[477] The camera and digital imaging assembly was developed specifically for the purpose of photographing illegible ancient texts.[479]
On 18 December 2012[480] the first output of this project was launched together with Google on the dedicated site Deadseascrolls.org.il.[481] The site contains both digitizations of old images taken in the 1950s and about 1000 new images taken with the new NASA technology.[482]
Israel Antiquities Authority and DNA scroll assembly (2006–2020)
Scientists with the Israeli Antiquities Authority have used DNA from the parchment on which the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were written, in concert with infrared digital photography, to assist in the reassembly of the scrolls. For scrolls written on parchment made from animal hide and papyrus, scientists with the museum are using DNA code to associate fragments with different scrolls and to help scholars determine which scrolls may hold greater significance based on the type of material that was used.[459] In a paper published in 2020 in the journal Cell, researchers from Tel Aviv University have shown that ancient DNA extracted from the ancient scrolls can be used to sort different scroll fragments not only based on the animal species but also based on variations in the nuclear genome of individual fragments. This effort enabled the researchers to match different fragments to each other based on their genetics and separate fragments which were falsely connected in the past.[483][484]
Israel Museum of Jerusalem and Google digitization project (2011–2016)
In partnership with Google, the Museum of Jerusalem is working to photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them available to the public digitally, although not placing the images in the public domain.[485] The lead photographer of the project, Ardon Bar-Hama, and his team are utilizing the Alpa 12 MAX camera accompanied with a Leaf Aptus-II back in order to produce ultra-high resolution digital images of the scrolls and fragments.[486] With photos taken at 1,200 megapixels, the results are digital images that can be used to distinguish details that are invisible to the naked eye. In order to minimize damage to the scrolls and fragments, photographers are using a 1/4000th of a second exposure time and UV-protected flash tubes.[485] The digital photography project was estimated in 2011 to cost approximately 3.5 million U.S. dollars.[486]
Scholarly examination
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After most of the scrolls and fragments were moved to the Palestine Archaeological Museum in 1953, scholars began to assemble them and log them for translation and study in a room that became known as the "scrollery".[487]
The text of the Dead Sea Scrolls is written in four different languages: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean.
Language | Script | Percentage of documents | Centuries of known use |
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Hebrew | Assyrian block script[488] | Estimated 76–79% | 3rd century BCE to present |
Hebrew | Cryptic scripts "A" "B" and "C"[489][490][491] | Estimated 0.9–1.0%[492] | Unknown |
Biblical Hebrew | Paleo-Hebrew script[493] | Estimated 1.0–1.5%[491] | 10th century BCE to the 2nd century CE |
Biblical Hebrew | Paleo-Hebrew scribal script[493] | ||
Aramaic | Aramaic square script | Estimated 16–17%[494] | 8th century BCE to present |
Greek | Greek uncial script[493] | Estimated 3%[491] | 3rd century BCE to 8th century CE |
Nabataean | Nabataean script[495] | Estimated 0.2%[495] | 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE |
Publication
Physical publication and controversy
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Some of the fragments and scrolls were published early. Most of the longer, more complete scrolls were published soon after their discovery. All the writings in Cave 1 appeared in print between 1950 and 1956; those from eight other caves were released in 1963; and 1965 saw the publication of the Psalms Scroll from Cave 11. Their translations into English soon followed.
Controversy
Publication of the scrolls has taken many decades, and delays have been a source of academic controversy. The scrolls were controlled by a small group of scholars headed by John Strugnell, while a majority of scholars had access neither to the scrolls nor even to photographs of the text. Scholars such as Norman Golb, publishers and writers such as Hershel Shanks, and many others argued for decades for publishing the texts, so that they become available to researchers. This controversy only ended in 1991, when the Biblical Archaeology Society was able to publish the "Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls", after an intervention of the Israeli government and the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA).[496] In 1991 Emanuel Tov was appointed as the chairman of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, and publication of the scrolls followed in the same year.
Physical description
The majority of the scrolls consist of tiny, brittle fragments, which were published at a pace considered by many to be excessively slow. During early assembly and translation work by scholars through the Rockefeller Museum from the 1950s through the 1960s, access to the unpublished documents was limited to the editorial committee.[citation needed]
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (1955–2009)
The content of the scrolls was published in a 40-volume series by Oxford University Press between 1955 and 2009 known as Discoveries in the Judaean Desert.[497] In 1952 the Jordanian Department of Antiquities assembled a team of scholars to begin examining, assembling, and translating the scrolls with the intent of publishing them.[498] The initial publication, assembled by Dominique Barthélemy and Józef Milik, was published as Qumran Cave 1 in 1955.[497] After a series of other publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s and with the appointment of the respected Dutch-Israeli textual scholar Emanuel Tov as editor-in-chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project in 1990 publication of the scrolls accelerated. Tov's team had published five volumes covering the Cave 4 documents by 1995. Between 1990 and 2009, Tov helped the team produce 32 volumes. The final volume, Volume XL, was published in 2009.
A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls (1991)
In 1991, researchers at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ben Zion Wacholder and Martin Abegg, announced the creation of a computer program that used previously published scrolls to reconstruct the unpublished texts.[499] Officials at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, led by Head Librarian William Andrew Moffett, announced that they would allow researchers unrestricted access to the library's complete set of photographs of the scrolls. In the fall of that year, Wacholder published 17 documents that had been reconstructed in 1988 from a concordance and had come into the hands of scholars outside of the International Team; in the same month, there occurred the discovery and publication of a complete set of facsimiles of the Cave 4 materials at the Huntington Library. Thereafter, the officials of the Israel Antiquities Authority agreed to lift their long-standing restrictions on the use of the scrolls.[500]
A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1991)
After further delays, attorney William John Cox undertook representation of an "undisclosed client", who had provided a complete set of the unpublished photographs, and contracted for their publication. Professors Robert Eisenman and James Robinson indexed the photographs and wrote an introduction to A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which was published by the Biblical Archaeology Society in 1991.[501] Following the publication of the Facsimile Edition, Professor Elisha Qimron sued Hershel Shanks, Eisenman, Robinson and the Biblical Archaeology Society for copyright infringement for publishing, without authorization or attribution, his decipherment of one of the scrolls, MMT. The District Court of Jerusalem found in favor of Qimron in September 1993.[502] The Court issued a restraining order, which prohibited the publication of the deciphered text, and ordered defendants to pay Qimron NIS 100,000 for infringing his copyright and the right of attribution. Defendants appealed the Supreme Court of Israel, which approved the District Court's decision, in August 2000. The Supreme Court further ordered that the defendants hand over to Qimron all the infringing copies.[503] The decision met Israeli and international criticism from copyright law scholars.[504][505][506][507][508]
The Facsimile Edition by Facsimile Editions Ltd, London, England (2007–2008)
In November 2007 the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation commissioned the London publisher, Facsimile Editions Limited, to produce a facsimile edition of The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa), The Order of the Community (1QS), and The Pesher to Habakkuk (1QpHab).[509][510] The facsimile was produced from 1948 photographs, and so more faithfully represents the condition of the Isaiah Scroll at the time of its discovery than does the current condition of the real Isaiah Scroll.[509]
Of the first three facsimile sets, one was exhibited at the Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, and a second set was purchased by the British Library in London. A further 46 sets including facsimiles of three fragments from Cave 4 (now in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Amman, Jordan) Testimonia (4Q175), Pesher Isaiahb (4Q162) and Qohelet (4Q109) were announced in May 2009. The edition is strictly limited to 49 numbered sets of these reproductions on either specially prepared parchment paper or real parchment. The complete facsimile set (three scrolls including the Isaiah Scroll and the three Jordanian fragments) can be purchased for $60,000.[509]
The facsimiles have since been exhibited in Qumrân. Le secret des manuscrits de la mer Morte at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France (2010)[511] and Verbum Domini at the Vatican, Rome, Italy (2012).[512]
Digital publication
Olive Tree Bible Software (2000–2011)
The text of nearly all of the non-biblical scrolls has been recorded and tagged for morphology by Martin Abegg, Jr., the Ben Zion Wacholder Professor of Dead Sea Scroll Studies at Trinity Western University located in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.[513] It is available on handheld devices through Olive Tree Bible Software - BibleReader, on Macs and Windows via emulator through Accordance with a comprehensive set of cross references, and on Windows through Logos Bible Software and BibleWorks.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Reader (2005)
The text of almost all of the non-biblical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls was released on CD-ROM by publisher E.J. Brill in 2005.[514] The 2,400 page, 6-volume series, was assembled by an editorial team led by Donald W. Parry and Emanuel Tov.[515] Unlike the text translations in the physical publication, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, the texts are sorted by genres that include religious law, parabiblical texts, calendrical and sapiental texts, and poetic and liturgical works.[514]
The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
High-resolution images, including infrared photographs, of some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online on two dedicated websites.
On 19 October 2010, it was announced[516] that Israeli Antiquities Authority would scan the documents using multi-spectral imaging technology developed by NASA to produce high-resolution images of the texts, and then, through a partnership with Google, make them available online free of charge,[517] on a searchable database and complemented by translation and other scholarly tools.
Related findings
Two silver scroll-shaped amulets dated c. 600 BCE and containing portions of the Priestly Blessing from the Book of Numbers were excavated in Jerusalem at Ketef Hinnom.
On 25 September 2011 the Israel Museum Digital Dead Sea Scrolls site went online.[518][519] It gives users access to searchable, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. As of May 2012[update], five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project and are now accessible online: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll.
Biblical significance
Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest Hebrew-language manuscripts of the Bible were Masoretic texts dating to the 10th century CE, such as the Aleppo Codex.[520] Today, the oldest known extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century. The biblical manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls push that date back a full thousand years, to the 2nd century BCE.[521] This was a significant discovery for Old Testament scholars who anticipated that the Dead Sea Scrolls would either affirm or repudiate the reliability of textual transmission from the original texts to the oldest Masoretic texts at hand. The discovery demonstrated the unusual accuracy of transmission over a thousand-year period, rendering it reasonable to believe that current Old Testament texts are reliable copies of the original works.
According to The Dead Sea Scrolls by Hebrew scholar Millar Burrows
Of the 166 words in Isaiah 53, there are only seventeen letters in question. Ten of these letters are simply a matter of spelling, which does not affect the sense. Four more letters are minor stylistic changes, such as conjunctions. The remaining three letters comprise the word "light," which is added in verse 11, and does not affect the meaning greatly.[522]
It is important to note that differences were found among fragments of texts. According to The Oxford Companion to Archaeology:
While some of the Qumran biblical manuscripts are nearly identical to the Masoretic, or traditional, Hebrew text of the Old Testament, some manuscripts of the books of Exodus and Samuel found in Cave Four exhibit dramatic differences in both language and content. In their astonishing range of textual variants, the Qumran biblical discoveries have prompted scholars to reconsider the once-accepted theories of the development of the modern biblical text from only three manuscript families: of the Masoretic text, of the Hebrew original of the Septuagint, and of the Samaritan Pentateuch. It is now becoming increasingly clear that the Old Testament scripture was extremely fluid until its canonization around A.D. 100.[523]
Biblical books found
There are 225 biblical texts included in the Dead Sea Scroll documents, or around 22% of the total, and with deuterocanonical books the number increases to 235.[524][525] The Dead Sea Scrolls contain parts of all but one of the books of the Tanakh of the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament protocanon. They also include four of the deuterocanonical books included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles: Tobit, Sirach, Baruch 6 (also known as the Letter or Epistle of Jeremiah), and Psalm 151.[524] The Book of Esther has not yet been found and scholars believe Esther is missing because, as a Jew, her marriage to a Persian king may have been looked down upon by the inhabitants of Qumran,[526] or because the book has the Purim festival which is not included in the Qumran calendar.[20]: 180 Listed below are the most represented books, along with the deuterocanonicals, of the Bible found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the number of translatable Dead Sea texts that represent a copy of scripture from each biblical book:[527][528]
Book | Number found |
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Psalms | 39 |
Deuteronomy | 33 |
1 Enoch | 25 |
Genesis | 24 |
Isaiah | 22 |
Jubilees | 21 |
Exodus | 18 |
Leviticus | 17 |
Numbers | 11 |
Minor Prophets | 10[note 1] |
Daniel | 8 |
Jeremiah | 6 |
Ezekiel | 6 |
Job | 6 |
Tobit | 5[note 2] |
Kings | 4 |
Samuel | 4 |
Judges | 4[531] |
Song of Songs (Canticles) | 4 |
Ruth | 4 |
Lamentations | 4 |
Sirach | 3 |
Ecclesiastes | 2 |
Joshua | 2 |
Non-biblical books
The majority of the texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls are non-biblical in nature and were thought to be insignificant for understanding the composition or canonization of the biblical books, but a consensus has emerged which sees many of these works as being collected by the Essene community instead of being composed by them.[532] Scholars now recognize that some of these works were composed earlier than the Essene period, when some of the biblical books were still being written or redacted into their final form.[532]
Museum exhibitions and displays
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Small portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls collections have been put on temporary display in exhibitions at museums and public venues around the world. The majority of these exhibitions took place in 1965 in the United States and the United Kingdom and from 1993 to 2011 in locations around the world. Many of the exhibitions were co-sponsored by either the Jordanian government (pre-1967) or the Israeli government (post-1967). Exhibitions were discontinued after 1965 due to the Six-Day War conflicts and have slowed down in post-2011 as the Israeli Antiquities Authority works to digitize the scrolls and place them in permanent cold storage.
The majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection was moved to Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book (a part of the Israel Museum) after the building's completion in April 1965.[533] The museum falls under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, an official agency of the Israeli government. The permanent Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the museum features a reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, surrounded by reproductions of other fragments that include Community Rule, the War Scroll, and the Thanksgiving Psalms Scroll.[534][535]
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection held by the Jordanian government prior to 1967 were stored in Amman rather than at the Palestine Archaeological Museum in East Jerusalem. As a consequence, that part of the collection remained in Jordanian hands under their Department of Antiquities. Since 2013, the part of the collection held by Jordan has been on display at The Jordan Museum in Amman.[536] Among the display items are artifacts from the Qumran site and the Copper Scroll.[537]
Ownership
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Upon their discovery in 1947 in what was then Mandatory Palestine, the Dead Sea Scrolls were first moved to the Palestine Archaeological Museum. Following the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the museum's management become the responsibility of Jordan.
Following the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, Jordan was defeated and Israel began to occupy the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestine Archeological Museum (soon renamed the Rockefeller Archeological Museum) fell under Israeli administration, and the Dead Sea Scrolls collection held there was moved to the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in West Jerusalem.[533] The Israel Museum falls under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority, an official agency of the Israeli government. The permanent Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the museum features a reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll, surrounded by reproductions of other fragments that include Community Rule, the War Scroll, and the Thanksgiving Psalms Scroll.[534][535]
Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection held by the Jordanian government prior to 1967 were stored in Amman rather than at the Palestine Archaeological Museum in East Jerusalem. As a consequence, that part of the collection remained in Jordanian hands, under their Department of Antiquities. Since 2013, the part of the collection held by Jordan has been on display at The Jordan Museum in Amman.[536] Among the display items are artifacts from the Qumran site and the Copper Scroll.[537]
Israel claims ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection currently housed at the Israel Museum. This claimed ownership is contested by both Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.[538]
Forgeries and claimed private ownership
Arrangements with the Bedouin left the scrolls in the hands of a third party until a profitable sale of them could be negotiated. That third party, George Isha'ya, was a member of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who soon contacted St Mark's Monastery in the hope of getting an appraisal of the nature of the texts. News of the find then reached Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, better known as Mar Samuel. After examining the scrolls and suspecting their antiquity, Mar Samuel expressed an interest in purchasing them. Four scrolls found their way into his hands: the Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa), the Community Rule, the Habakkuk Pesher (a commentary on the book of Habakkuk), and the Genesis Apocryphon. More scrolls soon surfaced in the antiquities market, and Professor Eleazer Sukenik and Professor Benjamin Mazar, archaeologists at Hebrew University, soon found themselves in possession of three, The War Scroll, Thanksgiving Hymns, and another, more fragmented, Isaiah Scroll (1QIsab).
Four of the Dead Sea Scrolls eventually went up for sale in an advertisement on 1 June 1954, The Wall Street Journal.[539] On 1 July 1954, the scrolls, after delicate negotiations and accompanied by three people including the Metropolitan, arrived at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. They were purchased by Professor Mazar and the son of Professor Sukenik, Yigael Yadin, for $250,000 (approximately $2,700,000 in 2022 dollars[540]), and brought to Jerusalem.[541]
Since 2002, many forgeries of Dead Sea Scrolls have appeared on black markets.[542]
In 2020, the Museum of the Bible in the United States (also known as Green Collection – Green Family) reported that all 16 purported "Dead Sea Scroll fragments" they had acquired between 2009 and 2014[543][544] were in fact modern forgeries.[545][546]
Claimed Owner | Year Acquired | Number of Fragments/Scrolls Owned |
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Azusa Pacific University[547] | 2009 | 5 |
Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago[548] | 1956 | 1 |
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary[549] | 2009; 2010; 2012 | 8 |
Israel Museum – Government of Israel[550][551] | 1967 | > 15,000 |
The Schøyen Collection owned by Martin Schøyen[552] | 1980; 1994; 1995 | 115[543] |
The Jordan Museum – Government of Jordan[536] | 1947–1956 | > 25 |
Syrian Orthodox Church's eastern U.S. archdiocese[553] | 1 | |
Ashland Theological Seminary[553] | 1 | |
Lanier Theological Library[553] | 1 | |
Pasadena Private Collection[553] | 1 |
Ownership disputes
The official ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls is disputed among Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. The debate over the Dead Sea Scrolls stems from a more general Israeli–Palestinian conflict over land and state recognition.
Parties involved | Party role | Explanation of role |
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Jordan | Disputant; minority owner | Alleges that the Dead Sea Scrolls were stolen from the Palestine Archaeological Museum (now the Rockefeller Museum) operated by Jordan from 1966 until the Six-Day War when advancing Israeli forces took control of the museum, and that therefore they fall under the rules of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.[554] Jordan regularly demands their return and petitions third-party countries that host the scrolls to return them to Jordan instead of to Israel, claiming they have legal documents that prove Jordanian ownership of the scrolls.[555] |
Israel | Disputant; current majority holder | After the Six-Day War Israel seized the scrolls and moved them to the Shrine of the Book in the Israel Museum. Israel disputes Jordan's claim and states that Jordan never lawfully possessed the scrolls since it was an unlawful occupier of the museum and region.[556][557][558] |
Palestine | Disputant | The Palestinian Authority also has a claim to the scrolls.[559] |
Copyright disputes
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There are three types of documents relating to the Dead Sea Scrolls in which copyright status can be considered ambiguous; the documents themselves, images taken of the documents, and reproductions of the documents. This ambiguity arises from differences in copyright law across different countries and the variable interpretation of such law.
In 1992 a copyright case Qimron v. Shanks was brought before the Israeli District court by scholar Elisha Qimron against Hershel Shanks of the Biblical Archaeology Society for violations of United States copyright law regarding his publishing of reconstructions of Dead Sea Scroll texts done by Qimron in A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls which were included without his permission. Qimron's suit against the Biblical Archaeology Society was done on the grounds that the research they had published was his intellectual property as he had reconstructed about 40% of the published text. In 1993, the district court Judge Dalia Dorner ruled for the plaintiff, Elisha Qimron, in context of both United States and Israeli copyright law and granted the highest compensation allowed by law for aggravation in compensation against Hershel Shanks and others.[560] In an appeal in 2000 in front of Judge Aharon Barak, the verdict was upheld in Israeli Supreme Court in Qimron's favor.[561] The court case established the two main principles from which facsimiles are examined under copyright law of the United States and Israel: authorship and originality.
The court's ruling not only affirms that the "deciphered text" of the scrolls can fall under copyright of individuals or groups, but makes it clear that the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves do not fall under this copyright law and scholars have a degree of, in the words of U.S. copyright law professor David Nimmer, "freedom" in access. Nimmer has shown how this freedom was in the theory of law applicable, but how it did not exist in reality as the Israeli Antiquities Authority tightly controlled access to the scrolls and photographs of the scrolls.[560]
See also
- Ancient Hebrew writings
- Book of Mysteries
- Cairo Geniza
- Jordan Lead Codices
- Ketef Hinnom scrolls (7th/6th century BCE), oldest items containing biblical text (a variation of Numbers 6:24–26 etc.)
- Nag Hammadi library
- Oxyrhynchus Papyri
- Teacher of Righteousness
Explanatory notes
- ^ In 2022, D. Longacre and B. Strawn demonstrated this small fragment to be part of the larger manuscript 4QPsc, as opposed to a separate manuscript of the Psalms.
References
Citations
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Thus, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan base their claims on territorial aspects (places of discovery of the scrolls), humanitarian (illegal deprivation following the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel) and legal (they claim to have proof of purchase of several scrolls) while, for its part, Israel's claims are primarily based in religious notions, invoking the sacred history of the Jewish people and recalling that the scrolls discovered in Qumran are, for the majority, the oldest known copies of biblical texts and are therefore of fundamental importance for the historical and religious heritage of Judaism.
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Some of these caves, such as 4 and 5, are located ca. 160 yd from the site, while others, such as 1, 2, 3 and 11, are at a distance of 1 mile to its north (Fig. 12)
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- ^ 1Q4 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q7 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q9 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q11 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q13 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q14 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q15 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q16 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q17 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q18 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q19 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q20 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q21 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q22 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q23 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q24 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q25 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q26 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q27 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q28 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q28 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q29 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q30 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q31 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Fitzmyer 2008, p. 23.
- ^ 1Q32 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q34 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q35 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q36 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q37 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q38 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q39 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q40 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 1Q71 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 1Q72 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Fitzmyer 2008, p. 25.
- ^ 2Q1 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q2 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q3 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q4 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q5 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q6 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q7 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q8 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q9 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h Fitzmyer 2008, p. 26.
- ^ 2Q13 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q14 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q15 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q16 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q17 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q18 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q19 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q20 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q21 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ Fitzmyer 2008, pp. 26–27.
- ^ 2Q22 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f Fitzmyer 2008, p. 27.
- ^ 2Q23 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q24 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q25 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 2Q26 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 3Q1 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Fitzmyer 2008, p. 28.
- ^ 3Q2 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q3 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q4 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q5 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q6 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q7 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q8 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q9 at Leon Levy Collection
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- ^ 3Q14 at Leon Levy Collection
- ^ 3Q15 at Leon Levy Collection
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- ^ 4Q1 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q2 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q3 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q4 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q5 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q6 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q7 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q8 4QGen h1 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q8 4QGen h2 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q8 4QGen h-para at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q8 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q9 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q10 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q11 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q12 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q13 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b 4Q14 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q15 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q17 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q18 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q19 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q20 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q21 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q22 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q23 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ Fitzmyer 2008, pp. 31–32.
- ^ 4Q24 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g Fitzmyer 2008, p. 32.
- ^ 4Q25 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q26 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q27 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q28 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q29 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q47 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q48 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f Fitzmyer 2008, p. 35.
- ^ 4Q49 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q50 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q51 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q52 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q53 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q54 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h Fitzmyer 2008, p. 36.
- ^ 4Q55 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q56 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q57 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q58 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q59 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q60 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q61 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fitzmyer 2008, p. 37.
- ^ 4Q62 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q63 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q64 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q65 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q66 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q67 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q68 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q69 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q73 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q74 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ Sanderson 1997. DJD 15: 215–218.
- ^ 4Q75 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q76 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q77 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q78 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g Fitzmyer 2008, p. 39.
- ^ 4Q79 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q80 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q81 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q82 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q83 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q84 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q85 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q87 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q88 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q89 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q90 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q91 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q92 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q93 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q94 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q95 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q96 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q97 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q98 4QPsr at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q99 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q100 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q101 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q102 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q103 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q104 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q105 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q107 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q108 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q109 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q110 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q111 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q112 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q113 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q114 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q115 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q116 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q117 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q118 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f Fitzmyer 2008, p. 44.
- ^ 4Q119 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q120 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q121 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q122 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q123 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q127 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q128 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Fitzmyer 2008, p. 45.
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- ^ 4Q130 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q132 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q133 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q134 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q135 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q136 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q138 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q139 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q140 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q141 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q142 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q143 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q144 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q145 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q146 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q147 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q148 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ Fitzmyer 2008, pp. 46–47.
- ^ 4Q149 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e f Fitzmyer 2008, p. 47.
- ^ 4Q150 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q151 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q152 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q153 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q154 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q155 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q157 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c d e Martinez and Tigchelaar, The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition (Brill 1997): page 305ff
- ^ 4Q158 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b c Fitzmyer 2008, p. 48.
- ^ 4Q159 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q160 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q161 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q162 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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- ^ 4Q167 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q168 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q169 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ a b Fitzmyer 2008, p. 50.
- ^ 4Q174 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q175 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q179 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q186 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q196 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
- ^ 4Q197 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
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General and cited sources
Books
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- Burrows, Millar (1955). The Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Viking. ISBN 0517625350.
- Burrows, Millar (1958). More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls; New Scrolls and New Interpretations, with Translations of Important Recent Discoveries. New York: Viking.
- Charlesworth, James H. "The Theologies of the Dead Sea Scrolls." pp. xv–xxi in The Faith of Qumran: Theology of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by H. Ringgren. New York: Crossroad, 1995.
- Chernoivanenko, Vitaly. "The Jerusalem Theory of the Dead Sea Scrolls Authorship: Origins, Evolution, and Discussions," in Ukrainian Orientalistics: Special Issue on Jewish Studies, Кyiv: NaUKMA Omeljan Pritsak Center for Oriental Studies, 2011: 9–29.
- Collins, John J., Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, New York: Routledge, 1997.
- Collins, John J., and Craig A. Evans. Christian Beginnings and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006.
- Cook, Edward M. (1994). Solving the Mysteries of the Dead Sea Scrolls: New Light on the Bible, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.
- Cross, Frank Moore (1995). The Ancient Library of Qumran, 3rd ed., Minneapolis: Fortress Press. ISBN 0800628071
- Davies, A. Powell (1956). The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Signet.
- Davies, Philip R., George J. Brooke, and Phillip R. Callaway (2002). The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls, London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500051119
- de Vaux, Roland, Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Schweich Lectures of the British Academy, 1959). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.
- Dimant, Devorah, and Uriel Rappaport (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls: Forty Years of Research, Leiden and Jerusalem: E.J. Brill, Magnes Press, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, 1992.
- Eisenman, Robert H., The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians, Shaftesbury: Element, 1996.
- Eisenman, Robert H., and Michael O. Wise. The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered: The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years, Shaftesbury: Element, 1992.
- Eisenman, Robert H. and James Robinson, A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls 2 vol., Washington, D.C.: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991.
- Fitzmyer, Joseph A., Responses to 101 Questions on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paulist Press 1992, ISBN 0809133482
- Fitzmyer, Joseph A. (2008). A Guide to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0802862419. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- Galor, Katharina, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, and Jürgen Zangenberg. Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates: Proceedings of a Conference held at Brown University, 17–19 November 2002, Edited by Florentino García Martínez, Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
- García-Martinez, Florentino, The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, (Translated from Spanish into English by Wilfred G. E. Watson) (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994).
- García Martínez Florentino, Eibert J.C. Tigchelaar, Editors, The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition, Brill, 1999
- Gaster, Theodor H., The Dead Sea Scriptures, Peter Smith Pub Inc., 1976. ISBN 0844667021
- Golb, Norman, Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran, New York: Scribner, 1995.
- Golb, Norman, On the Jerusalem Origin of the Dead Sea Scrolls Archived 10 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 5 June 2009.
- Heline, Theodore, Dead Sea Scrolls, New Age Bible & Philosophy Center, 1957, Reprint edition 1987, ISBN 0933963165
- Hirschfeld, Yizhar, Qumran in Context: Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence, Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 2004.
- Israeli, Raphael, Routledge Piracy in Qumran: The Battle over the Scrolls of the Pre-Christ Era], Transaction Publishers: 2008 ISBN 978-1412807036
- Khabbaz, C., "Les manuscrits de la mer Morte et le secret de leurs auteurs", Beirut, 2006. (Ce livre identifie les auteurs des fameux manuscrits de la mer Morte et dévoile leur secret).
- Magen, Yizhak, and Yuval Peleg, The Qumran Excavations 1993–2004: Preliminary Report, JSP 6 (Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, 2007) Download Archived 28 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Magen, Yizhak, and Yuval Peleg, "Back to Qumran: Ten years of Excavations and Research, 1993–2004," in The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Archaeological Interpretations and Debates (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 57), Brill, 2006 (pp. 55–116).
- Magness, Jodi, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.
- Maier, Johann, The Temple Scroll, [German edition was 1978], (Sheffield:JSOT Press [Supplement 34], 1985).
- Milik, Józef Tadeusz, Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness of Judea, London: SCM, 1959.
- Muro, E. A., "The Greek Fragments of Enoch from Qumran Cave 7 (7Q4, 7Q8, &7Q12 = 7QEn gr = Enoch 103:3–4, 7–8)." Revue de Qumran 18, no. 70 (1997): 307, 12, pl. 1.
- O'Callaghan-Martínez, Josep, Cartas Cristianas Griegas del Siglo V, Barcelona: E. Balmes, 1963.
- Qimron, Elisha, The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Harvard Semitic Studies, 1986. (This is a serious discussion of the Hebrew language of the scrolls.)
- Rengstorf, Karl Heinrich, Hirbet Qumran und die Bibliothek vom Toten Meer, Translated by J. R. Wilkie. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1960.
- Roitman, Adolfo, ed. A Day at Qumran: The Dead Sea Sect and Its Scrolls. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1998.
- Sanders, James A., ed. Dead Sea scrolls: The Psalms scroll of Qumrân Cave 11 (11QPsa), (1965) Oxford, Clarendon Press.
- Schiffman, Lawrence H., Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls: their True Meaning for Judaism and Christianity, Anchor Bible Reference Library (Doubleday) 1995, ISBN 0385481217, (Schiffman has suggested two plausible theories of origin and identity – a Sadducean splinter group, or perhaps an Essene group with Sadducean roots.) Excerpts of this book can be read at COJS: Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Schiffman, Lawrence H., and James C. VanderKam, eds. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Shanks, Hershel, The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Vintage Press 1999, ISBN 0679780890 (recommended introduction to their discovery and history of their scholarship)
- Stegemann, Hartmut. "The Qumran Essenes: Local Members of the Main Jewish Union in Late Second Temple Times." pp. 83–166 in The Madrid Qumran Congress: Proceedings of the International Congress on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Madrid, 18–21 March 1991, Edited by J. Trebolle Barrera and L. Vegas Mountainer. Vol. 11 of Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah. Leiden: Brill, 1992.
- Thiede, Carsten Peter, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity, Palgrave 2000, ISBN 0312293615
- Thiering, Barbara, Jesus the Man, New York: Atria, 2006.
- Thiering, Barbara, Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls (ISBN 0060677821), New York: HarperCollins, 1992
- VanderKam, James C., The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
- Vermes, Geza, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, London: Penguin, 1998. ISBN 0140245014 (7th ed. 2011 ISBN 978-0141197319)
- Wise, Michael O., Martin Abegg, Jr., and Edward Cook, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, (1996), Harper San Francisco paperback 1999, ISBN 0060692014, (contains the non-biblical portion of the scrolls, including fragments)
- Yadin, Yigael. The Temple Scroll: The Hidden Law of the Dead Sea Sect, New York: Random House, 1985.
Other sources
- Dead Sea Scrolls Study Vol 1: 1Q1 – 4Q273, Vol. 2: 4Q274 – 11Q31, (compact disc), Logos Research Systems, Inc., (contains the non-biblical portion of the scrolls with Hebrew and Aramaic transcriptions in parallel with English translations)
- Comprehensive Cross Reference interactive module for Dead Sea Scrolls, Josephus, Philo, Nag Hammadi Library, Pseudepigrapha, Old Testament Apocrypha, New Testament Apocrypha, Plato, Pythagoras, Dhammapada, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Tacitus, Talmud, New and Old Testaments, Apostolic and Early Church Fathers Archived 14 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- Harrison, R. K., The Dead Sea Scrolls: An Introduction, in the series The Cloister Library. New York: Harper Torchbooks. 1961.[ISBN missing]
- Angela Kim Harkins and Mladen Popoviç, eds. (November 2015). Dead Sea Discoveries. vol. 22.3: "Religious Experience and the Dead Sea Scrolls".
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