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1QIsab

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Photo showing part of 1QIsab, Isaiah 57:17 – 59:9.

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

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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

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The manuscript includes these verses.[2]

Fragment or Column Isaiah verse
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

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  1. ^ a b Flint, Peter W. (2013). The Dead Sea Scrolls. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. pp. 2–6. ISBN 978-0-687-49449-1.
  2. ^ a b García Martínez, Florentino (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. Leiden: Brill. pp. 4–5. ISBN 978-0802844934.
  3. ^ 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.