The Isaiah Scroll shows evidence of three scribes having written the text with the second and third making corrections to the writings of the first scribe.
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Great Isaiah Scroll
The Isaiah Scroll was written on parchment with each section hand-sewn with animal sinew threads. The outside of the scroll shows darkened areas from the many ancient hands that held the scroll open 2000 years ago.
The Isaiah Scroll shows evidence of three scribes having written the text with the second and third making corrections to the writings of the first scribe.
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The Isaiah Scroll shows evidence of three scribes having written the text with the second and third making corrections to the writings of the first scribe.
Writing From the Isaiah Scroll
A few lines (in Hebrew square writing) from one of the two scrolls of Isaiah found in the cave of the scrolls of Qumram, north-west of the Dead Sea.
Israel Museum(IDAM), Jerusalem, Israel
The Great Isaiah Scroll
Credit: The Israel Museum, Jerusalum The
Great Isaiah Scroll is one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls
discovered in Qumran in 1947. It is the best preserved of the scrolls,
and is nearly complete. At the Israel Museum's website, mousing over the Great Isaiah Scroll provides an English translation of the text.
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