Great Isaiah Scroll
Biblical manuscriptThe best-preserved and most complete biblical scroll from Qumran, containing all 66 chapters of Isaiah with numerous textual variants.
DEAD SEA SCROLLS STUDY LIBRARY
Witnesses.
Not one edition.
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COLLECTIONDSSBiblical and non-biblical manuscripts · Qumran and Judaean Desert
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IAA Digital LibraryBIBLICAL WITNESSESAncient textual history
The Judaean Desert manuscripts include partial or complete copies from nearly every book of the Hebrew Bible, alongside textual forms that can agree with or differ from later Masoretic wording.
NON-BIBLICAL WORKSSecond Temple literature
The archive also contains community rules, commentaries, hymns, prayers, wisdom, apocalyptic works, legal compositions, calendars, and parabiblical texts.
XIGEN APPROACHStudy, not substitution
These manuscripts remain a distinct study collection. XIGEN will never silently replace a Bible translation with a reconstructed or modern scholarly DSS text.
CURATED STARTING SET
Major manuscripts.
This is a navigation layer, not an exhaustive catalog. Use the IAA archive for the broader manuscript database and the Israel Museum for its high-resolution showcase scrolls.
Community Rule
Community / sectarianA foundational rule text describing community admission, discipline, communal life, and theological outlook.
War Scroll
Apocalyptic / militaryThe War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness, presenting an eschatological conflict in highly structured form.
Commentary on Habakkuk
Pesher / commentaryA running interpretation of Habakkuk that applies the prophetic text to the community's own historical and religious circumstances.
Temple Scroll
Legal / templeOne of the longest Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting laws and an idealized temple plan in a distinctive rewritten-scripture form.
Thanksgiving Hymns
Hymns / prayerA collection of Hebrew hymns of thanksgiving, confession, deliverance, and reflection on divine knowledge.
Psalms Scroll
Biblical / liturgicalA major Psalms manuscript whose sequence and additional compositions illuminate Second Temple-period use of the Psalter.
Genesis Apocryphon
ParabiblicalAn Aramaic retelling and expansion of material associated with Genesis, especially the stories of Lamech, Noah, and Abraham.
Copper Scroll
Inventory / documentaryAn unusual text inscribed on copper that lists locations and quantities of hidden treasure rather than presenting a conventional literary work.
Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
Liturgical / mysticalA cycle of thirteen compositions depicting angelic worship and the heavenly sanctuary.
Some Works of the Law
Legal / halakhicA composite legal text addressing disputed religious practices and often discussed in relation to sectarian identity.
Messianic Apocalypse
Apocalyptic / messianicA fragmentary composition describing divine acts associated with redemption and messianic expectation.
HIGH-RESOLUTION COLLECTION
Israel Museum
The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project provides high-resolution access to the Great Isaiah Scroll, Temple Scroll, War Scroll, Community Rule, and Commentary on Habakkuk.
Open digital collectionBROAD MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE
Israel Antiquities Authority
The IAA Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is the authoritative broader manuscript catalog. Its imagery and site content remain subject to IAA rights and terms.
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