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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).
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/
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/.
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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