Small Isaiah scroll
The small Isaiah scroll ( 1Q8 or 1QIsa b ) is an incomplete leather scroll dating from around 50/25 BC. BC and belongs to the Qumran Scrolls . It contains the text from 48 chapters of the book of Isaiah in Hebrew . The text is almost identical to the Masoretic text in the medieval manuscripts, which indicates a high level of text accuracy of the copies over more than a thousand years.
The scroll was found in 1947 by Bedouins in Cave 1 in Qumran on the Dead Sea and sold with seven other scrolls to scientists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . It is now in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
text
- Eugene Ulrich, Peter W. Flint (Eds.): Qumran Cave 1.II: The Isaiah Scrolls. Part 1: Plates and Transcriptions. Part 2: Introductions, Commentary, and Textual Variants (= Discoveries in the Judean Desert. Volume XXXII). Clarendon Press, Oxford 2011.
literature
- Emanuel Tov : The Text of Isaiah at Qumran . In: Craig C. Broyles, Craig A. Evans: Writing and Reading the Scroll of Isaiah: Studies of an Interpretative Tradition . Brill, Leiden et al. 1997, pp. 491-512.