Digital Dead Sea Scrolls. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Community Rule Scroll. Rule of Community Scroll (1QS) • Qumran, Cave 1 • 1st century BCE • Parchment • H: 24, L: 250 cm • Government of Israel • Accession number: 96.83/208A-B The Community Rule (Serekh Hayahad, 1QS), formerly called the "Manual of Discipline," is the major section of one of the first seven scrolls discovered in Cave 1 at Qumran in 1947.
Written in Hebrew in a square Hasmonean script, it was copied between 100 and 75 BCE. In addition to this manuscript, fragments of no less than ten additional copies of the work were found in Cave 4 (4Q255-264), and two tiny fragments of another copy came to light in Cave 5 (5Q11). The copy from Cave 1 is the best preserved and contains the longest version of the text known to us. On the basis of comparison with the fragments from Cave 4, however, scholars have concluded that the manuscript from Cave 1 represents a late stage in the evolution of the composition.
The Community Rule is a sectarian work, crucial for understanding the Community's way of life. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Community Rule Scroll. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The Temple Scroll. The Temple Scroll (11Q19) • Qumran Cave 11 • Late 1st century BCE - early 1st century CE • Parchment • H: 24-26; L: 814 cm • Purchased for the Shrine of the Book with the aid of a grant from the Wolfson Foundation • Accession number: H95.57.25, H95.57.23, H95.82.120 The Temple Scrolla (11Q19) was almost certainly discovered in 1956 in Cave 11, located about two kilometers north of Khirbet Qumran. The manuscript is written in Hebrew in the square Herodian script of the late Second Temple Period (the first half of the first century CE), on extremely thin animal skin (one-tenth of a millimeter), making it the thinnest parchment scroll ever found in the caves of Qumran. Two other copies of the same composition have also come to light: one in Cave 11 (Temple Scrollb [11Q20]), and another (possibly a fragmentary copy of the last part of the work) in Cave 4 (4QTemple Scrollb [4Q524]).
The Temple Scrolla consists of 18 sheets of parchment, each of which has three or four columns of text. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The Temple Scroll. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The War Scroll. The War Scroll (1QM), popularly known as "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness," is one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947. It contains 19 columns (originally there were at least twenty), of which the first 14–19 lines (out of at least 21–22) are preserved. The work is written in Hebrew in a square Herodian script and is dated to the late first century BCE or early first century CE.
Seven additional fragments (4Q491-497) with similar contents have also been found, but the relationship between these texts to 1QM is not entirely clear; they may represent an earlier version of the War Scroll, or source materials on which the War Scroll was based. This work is not, strictly speaking, an apocalypse (namely, a heavenly revelation), and it lacks a "messianic" figure. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The War Scroll. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Commentary on Habakkuk. The Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll (1QpHab) • Qumran, Cave 1 • 1st century BCE • Parchment • H: 14; L: 148 cm • Government of Israel • Accession number: 95.57/28 The Commentary on Habakkuk (Pesher Habakkuk, 1QpHab), is a relative complete scroll (1.48 m long) and one of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in caves of Qumran in 1947.
It interprets the first two chapters of the biblical book of the prophet Habakkuk and comprises 13 columns written in Hebrew, in a clear, square Herodian script. However, the tetragrammaton, the four-letter, ineffable name of God, is written in ancient Hebrew characters, unlike the rest of the text. The scroll has been dated to the second half of the first century BCE. In this work, the verses of the biblical book are copied paragraph by paragraph, in their original order. The scriptural text of Habakkuk on which the commentary is based, however, appears to be at variance from time to time with the Masoretic text. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Commentary on Habakkuk. Dss.collections.imj.org. The Great Isaiah Scroll The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) • Qumran Cave 1 • 1st century BCE • Parchment • H: 22-25, L: 734 cm • Government of Israel • Accession number: HU 95.57/27 The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in 1947.
It is the largest (734 cm) and best preserved of all the biblical scrolls, and the only one that is almost complete. The 54 columns contain all 66 chapters of the Hebrew version of the biblical Book of Isaiah. The version of the text is generally in agreement with the Masoretic or traditional version codified in medieval codices, such as the Aleppo Codex, but it contains many variant readings, alternative spellings, scribal errors, and corrections.
Several prophesies appearing in the Book of Isaiah have become cornerstones of Judeo-Christian civilization. Versions and Translations of the Book of Isaiah Basic Concepts: Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The Great Isaiah Scroll. Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.