Dead Sea Scrolls

15,000 fragments of about 850 scrolls from ancient Judaism

Qumran (; ; '''') is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry marl plateau about from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, about south of the historic city of Jericho, and adjacent to the modern Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya.

psalm ascribed to David found in the Septuagint but not in the Masoretic Text, regarded as canonical by the Eastern Orthodox Church

building in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem

The manuscript 4Q120 (also pap4QLXXLevb; AT22; VH 46; Rahlfs 802; LDAB 3452) is a Septuagint manuscript (LXX) of the biblical Book of Leviticus written on papyrus, found at Qumran. The Rahlfs-No. is 802. Paleographically it dates from the first century BCE. Currently the manuscript is housed in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.

set of obscure ancient prayers

English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar (1923–1988)

Dead Sea scroll

American priest and biblical scholar (1928–1998)

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

British scholar (1924–2013)

American biblical scholar (born 1937)

first-century CE treasure scroll from the Judean desert

ancient Jewish document

apocryphal Jewish book expanding a narrative in the Hebrew Bible, discovered at Qumran

Jewish religious text, one of the Dead Sea scrolls

scroll of the Book of Isaiah discovered with the Dead Sea Scrolls

Biblical scholar and linguist

stream in the Judean Desert

unknown priest in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Stream in Israel

ancient Jewish text

American Jesuit and biblical scholar (1920-2016)

One of the Dead Sea Scrolls

French archaeologist (1903–1971)

seasonal stream in the Judean Desert in Israel

American biblical scholar (1921–2012)

cave

one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls

cave in West Bank

thumb|300px| Pesher Habakkuk

Dead Sea Scrolls manuscript of the Psalms

Polish priest and Biblical scholar (1922–2006)

archaeological site in the West Bank

American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1922-2008)

Israeli academic (born 1949)

American academic

American university teacher (1909-1980)

Babatha bat Shimʿon, also known as Babata ( – after 132) was a Jewish woman who lived in the town of Maḥoza at the southeastern tip of the Dead Sea in what is now Jordan at the beginning of the 2nd century CE.

French Dominican and Biblical scholar (1906-1987)

Israeli archaeologist and historian (1958–2010)

Minṭaqat taqaʻu ʻalá al-Shāṭiʼ al-gharbī lil-baḥr al-mayyit

British archaeologist (1901-1979)

Italian monk, Biblical scholar and archaeologist (1921-2002)

American archaeologist (1930–2021)

French Roman Catholic biblical scholar (1914–1986)

Texts from Qumran

American Biblical scholar (1928-2008)

REDIRECT Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever

American historian

thumb|right| 4QMMT, also known as MMT, or the Halakhic Letter, is a reconstructed text from manuscripts that were part of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran in the Judean desert. The manuscript fragments used to reconstruct 4QMMT were found in Cave 4 at Qumran in 1953-1959, and kept at the Palestinian Archaeological Museum, now known as the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem.

collection of ancient texts

thumb|250px|Manuscript 4Q246 4Q246, also known as the Son of God Text or the Aramaic Apocalypse, is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran which is notable for an early messianic mention of a son of God. The text is an Aramaic language fragment first acquired in 1958 from cave 4 at Qumran, and the major debate on this fragment has been on the identity of this "son of God" figure.

Spanish priest and academic

Israeli biblical scholar

2016 film directed by Amin Matalqa

German academic (1933–2005)

French religious historian (1972-)

Palestinian photographer

American biblical scholar and translator (1927-2020)