30/08/2008

The Great Isaiah Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls by The Israel Museum

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The Great Isaiah Scroll is one of the parchment scrolls discovered in 1947 in a cave near Qumran, on the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea. Of the 220 biblical scrolls found in the area, the complete Great Isaiah Scroll is one of the best preserved and the only one containing an entire biblical book. Dating from approximately 120 BCE, it is also one of the oldest Dead Sea Scrolls and to date one of the oldest known parchments.

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