Most of them were written on parchment, with the exception of a few written on papyrus. The vast majority of the scrolls survived as fragments - only a handful were found intact. Nevertheless, scholars have managed to reconstruct from these fragments approximately 950 different manuscripts of various lengths.
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Dead Sea Scrolls ; Parchment, papyrus, and copper · Mostly Hebrew, but also Aramaic and Greek · c. 3rd century BCE – 1st century CE · 1946/1947–1956.
These were written on various materials, from leather to papyrus. While some scrolls are several feet long, many smaller fragments are no larger than a ...
May 9, 2024 · Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient, mostly Hebrew, manuscripts (of leather, papyrus, and copper) first found in 1947 on the northwestern shore of the ...