Great Isaiah scroll

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Complete Isaiah scroll

The Great Isaiah Scroll from Qumran ( 1QJes a ) is a 7.34 m long parchment scroll that was probably made in the 2nd century BC. Was described. It contains almost the entire text of the book of Isaiah in Hebrew and is the oldest surviving manuscript of an entire book in the Bible.

The roll is up to 28 cm wide and described in 54 columns.

The text has a general consistency with the text of the Codex Leningradensis from 1008 AD, the oldest fully preserved manuscript in the Hebrew Bible. But it also contains many different readings, alternative spellings, spelling mistakes and corrections. Strictly speaking, the number of text variants is well over 2,600, ranging from a single letter, sometimes one or more words to complete verse variants or verses (for example, the second half of Ch. 2.9 and the entire verse are missing 10).

In 1991 and 1994, investigations using the radiocarbon method established that the manuscript was created around 200 BC. Chr. Firmly.

The manuscript was found in 1947 by Bedouins in Cave 1 in Qumran on the Dead Sea . It is now the center of the Shrine of the Book , a building that is part of the Israel Museum complex in Jerusalem . To protect against vandalism or theft, it is located behind armored glass.

literature

  • Millar Burrows: The Dead Sea Scrolls of St. Mark's Monastery 1: The Isaiah Manuscript and the Habakkuk Commentary. New Haven, American Schools of Oriental Research 1951.
  • Edward Yechezkel Kutscher: The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isaiah Scroll (= Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 6). Leiden 1974. ISBN 90-04-04019-6
  • Donald W. Parry, Elisha Qimron (ed.): The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa a ): A New Edition (= Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 32). Leiden / New York / Cologne 1998. ISBN 90-04-11277-4
  • Eugene Ulrich, Peter W. Flint: Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls (= Discoveries in the Judaean Desert 32). Oxford: Clarendon Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-956666-2

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