1st-century biblical manuscripts

15,000 fragments of about 850 scrolls from ancient Judaism

fragmentary manuscript

thumb|right|Fragment 5 from Cave 7 of the Qumran Community in its entirety

Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript of the Psalms

thumb|right| 4Q175 (or 4QTest), also known as The Testimonia, is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls and was found in Cave 4 at Qumran in the West Bank. Only one sheet long, 4Q175 is a collection of scriptural quotations seemingly connected to a messianic figure. The manuscript was written in Hasmonean script of the early 1st century BCE.

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