The most manuscript fragments were found in Cave 4, over 15,000. These scrolls have largely backed up the Masoretic Text, with rare exception. or older, like the Great Isaiah Scroll which was carbon-dated as old as 335 B.C. to 68 A.D., drastically increased our assurance that the Old Testament we have today has been faithfully transmitted through the centuries. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, most of which dated from 200 B.C. From 1949-1954, additional fragments of more than 950 different scrolls were found in 10 nearby caves by Bedouins and a joint archaeological expedition led by Professor Father Roland de Vaux for the École Biblique et Archéologique Française and the Rockefeller Museum. Three of these scrolls were then purchased by archaeologist Eliezer Lipa Sukenik for the Hebrew University and others were bought by Mar Athanasius Samuel for the Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. Bedouin of the Ta'amra tribe discovered 7 scrolls in a cave now named "Cave 1" Khirbet Qumran on the Northwest shore of the Dead Sea. In 1947, in the midst of the War for the Independence of the Republic of Israel, came the discovery, at Qumran, of the first 7 Dead Sea scrolls by a Bedouin shepherd boy looking for his straying goat. & Tigchelaar, E.J.C., " The Dea Sea Scrolls Study Edition, Vol. * Papyrology Websites, Oxyrhynchus Online * Israel Museum, The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls * John Rylands University Library, Image Collections, Bible Greek or Hebrew Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship * Stephen Rives, Old Testament Manuscripts and 18 Tiqqune Sepherim and Looking Under the Hood: Origins of the Bible Slideshow Minor Prophets (all books) & fragments of Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Isaiah. The following is a list of major Old Testament manuscripts older than 200 A.D.: Old Testament List of Old Testament manuscripts
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