Fragment and Scroll Lists
While many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are small fragments of Biblical, apocryphal, or sectarian manuscripts, some of the scrolls have come to be well known and influential to Second Temple Judaism. The following are lists of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the caves near Qumran:
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