6Q6 is a small portion of a scroll from Cave 6 at

Qumran Qumran (; ; ') is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry marl plateau about from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, about south of the historic city of Jericho, and adjac ...

, containing

Song of Songs The Song of Songs (), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a Biblical poetry, biblical poem, one of the five ("scrolls") in the ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh. Unlike other books in the Hebrew Bible, i ...

1:1-7 in

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. Together with three scroll portions found in Cave 4, they comprise the total witness to the Song from the

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 ...

. It is dated to about 50 CE.

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Emanuel Tov Emanuel Tov (; born Menno Toff, 15 September 1941) is a Dutch–Israeli biblical scholar and linguist, emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Bible Studies in the Department of Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been intimately invo ...

br>'A Categorized List of All the "Biblical Texts" Found in the Judean Desert.'
''Dead Sea Discoveries'' 8 (2001): 67–84.
6Q6 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library
{{Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls 1st-century BC biblical manuscripts

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