Text |
BIBLE: ISAIAH, UNINSCRIBED FRAGMENTS AND PART OF THE COVER |
Description |
MS in Hebrew on vellum, Qumran, ca. 150-125 BC, 24 uninscribed fragments, largest 2,8x1,1 cm, from a scroll of 17 membranes, 26x734 cm, 54 columns, 28-32 lines. |
Context |
Part of the Great Isaiah A Scroll, 1QIsa, now in Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Of the present MS, 8 fragments, largest 1,1x1,0 cm, come from the lower edge of the scroll; 6 fragments, largest 1,3x0,9 cm, from the cover; 9 fragments, largest 2,8x1,1 cm, are repair vellum; a repair thread, 3,0 cm sewn into a vellum fragment, 2,0x0,4 cm, comes from the lower edge of column XII. In addition there are 8 bits of linen thread from the cloth in which the scroll originally was wrapped. |
Provenance |
1. Community of the Essenes, Qumran (ca. 150 BC-68 AD); 2. Qumran Cave 1 (68-1947); 3. Muhammad Adh-Dhib of the Ta'amireh tribe, Judaean desert (1947); 4. Khalil Iskander Shahin ("Kando"), Bethlehem (1947-48); 5. Syrian orthodox Monastery of St. Mark (Metropolitan Athanasius Samuel), Jerusalem (1948); 6. Gift to John C. Trever, Jerusalem, Claremont and Laguna Hills, California (1948-1994). |
Published |
1. (without the present fragments) Millar Burrows, John C. Trever and William H. Brownlee: The Dead Sea Scrolls of St. Mark's Monastery. vol. I, New Haven, The American School of Oriental Research, 1950; and facsimiles in: John C. Trever: Scrolls from Qumran Cave I, Jerusalem, The Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, and Shrine of the Book. 2. DJD XXXII, Oxford 2010, p. 19 and plate E. |