Dead Sea Scroll of Pesher Isaiah (Illustration)

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 06 April 2018

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Dead Sea Scroll of Pesher Isaiah — This is part of Pesher Isaiah, scroll number 4Q162, which was found in Cave 4 at Qumran (Khirbet Qumran or Wadi Qumran). A pesher is a type of commentary. The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts. The majority were written in Hebrew script on leather or papyrus; however, many were written in Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean-Aramaic. They were rolled-up and stored in specific jars with tight-fitting covers. When initially found, they were either scrolls or fragments of manuscripts or texts of previous complete scrolls; some of them were torn into thousands of fragments. Cave 4 originally contained about three-quarters of the scrolls. The precise dating of the scrolls is unknown; scholars give the range of 408 BCE to 318 CE. From Qumran Cave 4, West Bank of the Jordan River, near the north part of the Dead Sea, modern-day State of Israel. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan Hashemite Kingdom).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, April 06). Dead Sea Scroll of Pesher Isaiah. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8464/dead-sea-scroll-of-pesher-isaiah/

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Dead Sea Scroll of Pesher Isaiah." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified April 06, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/8464/dead-sea-scroll-of-pesher-isaiah/.

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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Dead Sea Scroll of Pesher Isaiah." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 06 Apr 2018. Web. 17 Apr 2021.

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