Dead Sea Scrolls

Private collection of biblical manuscripts and artifacts

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Syriac Orthodox archbishop (1907–1995)

French semitologist and Biblical scholar (1900–1983)

American scholar of Semitic languages (1926–1995)

One of the early editors of the Dead Sea scrolls (1909-1988)

thumb|Photo showing part of 1QIsab, Isaiah 57:17 – 59:9. 1QIsab also known as the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll is a fragmentary copy (75%) of the Book of Isaiah found at Qumran Cave 1 by Bedouin from the Ta'amireh tribe in 1947. It was discovered along with and grouped and sold together with two other Dead Sea Scrolls, the Thanksgiving Hymn and the War Scroll. Seven fragments of 1QIsab are also classified as 1Q8. It would have been written between 100-50 BC on parchment made of sheep skin with the Square Hebrew Script.

Kohlit or Kohalit () is a place name used in rabbinic literature, and more famously in the Copper Scroll, a unique "treasure map" discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS). It is unknown whether the two sources are referring to the same place.

legendary account of the punishment and healing of the Babylonian king Nabonidus

British Biblical scholar (1945–2018)

Dead Sea Scroll text, 4Q285 & 11Q14

American archaeologist (1930-2010)

Dead Sea Scroll discovered in 1947

a series of thirteen songs, one for each of the first thirteen Sabbaths of the year, contained in fragments found among the Dead Sea scrolls. The Songs were found in 10 fragmentary copies: nine at Qumran (4Q400–407; 11Q17) and one at Masada.

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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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