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Scripture

The War Scroll from Qumran

Of the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls recovered from the caves above the Wadi Qumran in 1947, the most unusual is the manuscript that scholars now call the War Scroll, and that…

Scripture

The Community Rule and the Yahad of the Dead Sea

Among the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls that came into the hands of the antiquities market in 1947 and were acquired by the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel and by the…

Transmission

The Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1

The Isaiah Scroll from Cave 1, catalogued as 1QIsaa, takes its place in the long history of Hebrew Bible manuscripts as the largest and best preserved of the seven original Dead Sea…