Dead Sea Scroll Stats

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Total number of scrolls:

About 900

Total number of intact scrolls:

About 12 (depending on what you consider intact)

Total number of fragmentary scrolls:

About 888

Date first scrolls found:

1947 or 1948

Date last scroll found:

1956

Number of chief scroll editors:

4

Names, dates and number of volumes published during term of each chief scroll editor:

Roland de Vaux, 1952–1975, 4 vols.

Pierre Benoit, 1975–1984, 2 vols.

John Strugnell, 1984–1990, 1 vol.

Emanuel Tov, 1990-present, 30 vols.

Number of scholars on original scroll publication team:

8 or 9

Number of Jews on original scroll publication team:

0

Number of scholars who published scrolls through 1986:

30

Number of scholars added to publication team by Strugnell:

18

Number of scholars added to publication team by Tov:

53

Total number of scholars who edited scrolls:

98

Total number of pages (excluding 3 volumes still in preparation):

11,594

Total number of plates of photographs (excluding 3 volumes in preparation):

1312