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In 011, more than 60 years after the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by the Bedouin in what became known as Qumran Cave 1, a splendid new edition of the Great Isaiah Scroll—1QIsaa, in more technical language—has been published in the official scroll series, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (DJD). It is Volume 32—or XXXII, as it prefers to call itself—and includes two sub-volumes, Parts 1 and 2. This brings to completion the 40-volume series.1 Ultimately, more than 900 different manuscripts were discovered in the caves near the ruins of Qumran. Almost a quarter of them are […]

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Endnotes

Eugene Ulrich and Peter W. Flint, Qumran Cave 1: II. The Isaiah Scrolls, DJD XXXII (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2010). The volume also includes a critical edition of the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll, a much less complete and more deteriorated scroll, designated 1QIsa^b.