- Description
- Photographic reproduction of the Great Isaiah Scroll [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_scroll], the best preserved of the biblical scrolls [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls] found at Qumran [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran]. It contains the entire Book of Isaiah [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Isaiah] in Hebrew, apart from some small damaged parts. This manuscript was probably written by a scribe of the Jewish sect of the Essenes [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes] around the second century BC. It is therefore over a thousand years older than the oldest Masoretic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic_Text] manuscripts.
- Source file
- Great Isaiah Scroll.jpg
- Creator
- Photographs by Ardon Bar Hama, author of original document is unknown.
- Credit
- Website of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, see link [http://www.imj.org.il/shrine_center/Isaiah_Scrolling/index.html].
- Date
- +/- second century BC
