1QIsab

1QIsa^b also known as the Hebrew University Isaiah Scroll is a fragmentary copy (75%) of the Book of Isaiah found at Qumran Cave 1 by Bedouin from the Ta'amireh tribe in 1947.^[1] It was discovered along with and grouped and sold together with two other Dead Sea Scrolls, the Thanksgiving Hymn and the War Scroll.^[1] Seven fragments of 1QIsa^b are also classified as 1Q8.^[2] It would have been written between 100-50 BC on parchment made of sheep skin with the Square Hebrew Script.

Photo showing part of 1QIsa^b, Isaiah 57:17 – 59:9.

History

Eleazar Sukenik purchased the scroll from an antiquities dealer in Bethlehem named Faidi Salahi, who had purchased the scroll from the Bedouin, on 21 December 1947.^[3] Much of the scroll is dark and blackened, preserved in multiple fragments, and in four major sheets that contain the upper section of the last third of the book.^[3] Paleography dates the scroll to the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian period in the first century BCE.^[3]

Verses Included

The manuscript includes these verses.^[2]

Fragment or Column	Isaiah verse
Frag. 1 i	10:17-19
Frag. 2 i	13:16-19
Frag. 3 i	16:7-11
Frag. 4	19:20-21
Frag. 5	22:24-23:4
Frag. 6 i	26:1-5
Frag. 6 ii	28:15-20
Frag. 7	29:1-8
Frag. 8	30:10-14
Frag. 9	30:21-26
Frag. 10	35:4-5
Frag. 11	37:8-12
Col. I + Frag. 12	38:12-39:8; 40:2-3
Col. II	41:3-23
Col. III + Frag. 13	43:1-13; 23-27
Col. IV	44:21-45:13
Col. V	46:3-47:13
Col. VI	47:17-49:15
Col. VII	50:7-51:10
Col. VIII	52:7-54:6
Col. IX	55:2-57:4
Col. X	57:17-59:8
Col. XI	59:20-61:2
Col. XII	62:2-64:8
Col. XIII	65:17-66:24