All manuscripts
Manuscript
Dead Sea Scrolls
scroll
- Date
- c. 250 BCE – 70 CE
- Material
- Parchment and papyrus
- Provenance
- Qumran caves, Judean Desert
- Contents
- Portions of every OT book except Esther, plus sectarian texts
- Notes
- ~ 981 manuscripts across 11 caves.
Significance
Revolutionized understanding of Second Temple Judaism and the transmission of the Hebrew Bible.