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1QIsab is a fragmentary copy of the Book of Isaiah found at Qumran Cave 1 by Bedouin from the Ta'amireh tribe in 1947.[1] It was discovered along with and grouped and sold together with two other Dead Sea Scrolls, the Thanksgiving Hymn and the War Scroll.[1] Seven fragments of 1QIsab are also classified as 1Q8.[2]
History
Eleazar Sukenik purchased the scroll from an antiquities dealer in Bethlehem named Faidi Salahi, who had purchased the scroll from the Bedouin, on 21 December 1947.[3] 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.[3] Paleography dates the scroll to the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian period in the first century BCE.[3]
Verses Included
The manuscript includes these verses.[2]
Fragment or Column | Isaiah verse |
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Frag. 1 i | 10:17-19 |
Frag. 2 i | 13:16-19 |
Frag. 3 i | 16:7-11 |
Frag. 4 | 19:20-21 |
Frag. 5 | 22:24-23:4 |
Frag. 6 i | 26:1-5 |
Frag. 6 ii | 28:15-20 |
Frag. 7 | 29:1-8 |
Frag. 8 | 30:10-14 |
Frag. 9 | 30:21-26 |
Frag. 10 | 35:4-5 |
Frag. 11 | 37:8-12 |
Col. I + Frag. 12 | 38:12-39:8; 40:2-3 |
Col. II | 41:3-23 |
Col. III + Frag. 13 | 43:1-13; 23-27 |
Col. IV | 44:21-45:13 |
Col. V | 46:3-47:13 |
Col. VI | 47:17-49:15 |
Col. VII | 50:7-51:10 |
Col. VIII | 52:7-54:6 |
Col. IX | 55:2-57:4 |
Col. X | 57:17-59:8 |
Col. XI | 59:20-61:2 |
Col. XII | 62:2-64:8 |
Col. XIII | 65:17-66:24 |
References
- ^ a b Flint, Peter W. (2013). The Dead Sea Scrolls. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. pp. 2–6. ISBN 978-0-687-49449-1.
- ^ a b García Martínez, Florentino (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. Leiden: Brill. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0802844934.
- ^ a b c Ulrich, Eugene; Flint, Peter W. (2010). Qumran cave 1. II, The Isaiah scrolls. Ulrich, Eugene; Flint, Peter W.; Abegg, Martin G., Jr. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 12–13, 21. ISBN 9780199566679. OCLC 708744480.