Dead Sea Scrolls
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, which mostly consist of the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish biblical manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of ten years,
Caves at Qumran
Qumran cave 4, where ninety per cent of the scrolls were found
A view of the Dead Sea from a cave at Qumran in which some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered
The Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) contains almost the whole Book of Isaiah.
Book of Enoch
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The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah. The Book of Enoch co
Dead Sea Scrolls
…canonical Hebrew scriptures. Approximately 30% are texts from the Second Temple period that ultimately were not canonized in the Hebrew Bible, such as the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Tobit, the Wisdom of Sirach, Psalms 152–155, etc. The remainder (roughly 30%) are sectarian manuscripts of previously…
Chester Beatty XII, Greek manuscript of the Book of Enoch, 4th century
4th century AD manuscript, with the end of 'The Epistle of Enoch' and the beginning of the Passion homily of 'Melito'; note the large text reading ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ ΕΝΩΧ (EPISTOLĒ ENOCH)
Aleppo Codex Joshua 1 1