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Isaiah 53 at Qumran | Isaiah 40:3 Over Two Millennia [PDF] The Name at Qumran [PDF] | Hebrew-Aramaic Transliteration [PDF] Visit the Israel Museum's Digital Display of key Qumran Scrolls.
Dead Sea (Qumran) Scroll Scripts |
Two modern Hebrew alphabets (reading right to left).
Two sample alphabet lines extrapolated from the Nash Papyri found in 1902 in Egypt. Dates to ca. 164 BC.
Lines 1 & 2 extrapolated from Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa). Dates to 125–100 BC. Line 3 from a Marriage Deed from AD 1065 (for comparison).
Two sample alphabet lines extrapolated from the Habakkuk Commentary (1QpHab). Dates to 30–1 BC.
Alphabet scans from: Solomon A. Birnbaum, "The Qumran (Dead Sea) Scrolls and Palaeography" in American Schools of Oriental Research, Supplementary Studies 13-14 (1952): 33, 38, 41. |
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Isaiah 53 at Qumran | Isaiah 40:3 Over Two Millennia [PDF] The Name at Qumran [PDF] Hebrew-Aramaic Transliteration [PDF]
Visit the Israel Museum's Digital Display of key Qumran Scrolls.
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