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1QIsab also known as the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll is a fragmentary copy (75%) of the
1QIsab also known as the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll is a fragmentary copy (75%) of the Book of Isaiah
The Book of Isaiah ( ) is the first of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Major Prophets in the Christian Old Testament. It is identified by a superscription as the words of the 8th-century BC prophet Isaiah ben Amo ...
found at Qumran
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Cave 1 by Bedouin
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from the Ta'amireh tribe in 1947. It was discovered along with and grouped and sold together with two other Dead Sea Scrolls
The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts, ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). They were discovered over a period of ten years, between ...
, the Thanksgiving Hymn and the War Scroll. Seven fragments of 1QIsab are also classified as 1Q8. It would of been written between 100-50 BC on Parchment made of Sheep Skin with the Square Hebrew Script.
History
Eleazar Sukenik purchased the scroll from an antiquities dealer inBethlehem
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named Faidi Salahi, who had purchased the scroll from the Bedouin, on 21 December 1947. Much of the scroll is dark and blackened, preserved in multiple fragments, and in four major sheets that contain the upper section of the last third of the book. Paleography
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dates the scroll to the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian
Herodian or Herodianus () of Syria, sometimes referred to as "Herodian of Antioch" (c. 170 – c. 240), was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled ''History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus'' (τῆς με ...
period in the first century BCE.
Verses Included
The manuscript includes these verses.References