DEAD SEA SCROLL OF ISAIAH 52:13 – 54:4
This is a facsimile on parchment paper.
The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is remarkable because it is the only scroll from the Qumran Caves to be preserved almost in its entirety. It was found in Cave 1 in 1947 near Qumran in the Western Desert of Israel. It is the largest (734 cm) and best preserved of all the biblical scrolls, and the only one that is almost complete. The 54 columns contain the 66 chapters of the Hebrew version of the biblical book of Isaiah.
It is now on display at the Shrine of the Book Museum in Jerusalem.
It has been dated to between 356 and 107 BCE. It provided phenomenal evidence for the accuracy of the biblical account. It is also one of the oldest Dead Sea Scrolls, about 1,000 years older than the oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible before the scrolls were discovered, and nearly identical to the Masoretic or traditional text codified in medieval codices, such as the Aleppo Codex.
Isaiah’s prophecy of the death of Christ dates back to over 700 years before Jesus was born. While this particular text was written over 100 years before his birth.
Qumran Caves in the Western Desert of Israel.
