Dead Sea Scrolls
The Qumran library — 981 manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, discovered in eleven caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956. Every book of the Hebrew Bible is represented except Esther, and the earliest copies pre-date the Masoretic Text by a thousand years.
Collection in curation
What this collection will include
- — The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ) — complete, with text compared against the Masoretic Text and LXX
- — Community Rule (1QS) and the Damascus Document (CD)
- — War Scroll (1QM), Habakkuk Pesher (1QpHab), and Temple Scroll (11QT)
- — Minor prophetic and wisdom fragments from Caves 4 and 11
- — Photographs, paleographic dating, sigla key, and translation links to IAA Leon Levy Digital Library
Have a specific scroll you'd like prioritized? Email pastorcharlie@gospellifeministries.com.