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The Qumran Scrolls, also known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, are an important source of information for people who are interested in trying to understand the earliest forms of the Hebrew Bible. Unfortunately, the Qumran Scrolls only contain a minority of the Bible, consisting mostly of fairly small fragments, and the Qumran Scrolls themselves do not always agree with each other, and certainly do not constitute the original Hebrew Bible. The originals are gone; various witnesses are all that remain.
Other important witnesses to the text of the Hebrew Bible include the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Septuagint.
A complete edition (as of 2010) of all the Qumran Hebrew Bible passages (transcriptions, not facsimiles) can be found in Eugene Ulrich's The Biblical Qumran Scrolls.
As with other pages migrated from biblicalambiguities.net, this page may contain material paraphrased or even outright copied without direct attribution from the KJV, RV, ASV, JPS (1917), WEB, NHEB, Kittel's BH, the pre-1923 volumes of the ICC series, or the commentaries on Genesis of Dillmann, Skinner, and Driver. More details on this policy can be found here: biblicalambiguities-general-disclaimer and biblicalambiguities-translation-disclaimer.