The most well-known texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls are the ancient religious writings found in eleven caves near the site of Qumran. Discoveries from additional sites yielded mostly documents and letters, especially papyri that had been hidden in caves by refugees from wars.

It is by far the most productive of all Qumran caves, producing 90% 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.

The original seven Dead Sea Scrolls from Cave 1 at Qumran are the Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a), a second copy of Isaiah (1QIsa b), the Community Rule Scroll (1QS), the Pesher on Habakkuk (1QpHab), the War Scroll (1QM), the Thanksgiving Hymns …

Wadi Qumran Cave 11 was discovered in 1956 and yielded 21 texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, some of which were quite lengthy. The Temple Scroll , so called because more than half of it pertains to the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem , was found in …

The discovery of the texts from Qumran Cave 4 has finally provided parts of the Aramaic original. In the fragment exhibited here, humankind is called on to observe how unchanging nature follows God's will.

Jul 31, 2024 · The Qumran caves have yielded a rich collection of biblical manuscripts, providing invaluable insights into the textual history of the Hebrew Bible. These manuscripts include complete scrolls, substantial fragments, and smaller pieces, covering almost the …

This file should eventually contain a list of all the known manuscripts from the eleven original caves excavated at Qumran and about which information is presently available.

For example, the section of text from the Book of Secrets (listed below), is reconstructed from fragment 27 found in Qumran Cave 1 (1Q27) and fragments 299-301 of a different copy found in Qumran Cave 4 (4Q299-301). A variety of literary forms can be …

Mar 20, 2021 · Qumran cave 1 revisited : texts from cave 1 sixty years after their discovery: proceedings of the sixth meeting of the IOQS in Ljubljana by International Organization for Qumran Studies. Meeting (6th : 2007 : Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Mar 14, 2025 · The most important manuscripts from what is now identified as Cave 1 of Qumrān are a practically complete Isaiah scroll (1QIsa a), dated about 100–75 bce, and another very fragmentary manuscript (1QIsa b) of the same book.