The Berean Codex™Scripture Research Project
Evidence Entity

Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ)

Dead Sea Scroll biblical manuscript preserving the complete book of Isaiah and providing a major pre-Masoretic Hebrew witness. v50 catalogs the manuscript identity without importing project imagery or treating the entity record as a verse-by-verse transcription.

ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QISAA
Dateca. 125 BCEapproximate; Israel Museum exhibition and digital-scroll dating
LanguageHebrew
Evidence classificationdocumented fact
Research links1explicit graph relationships
Biblical textual witnessJewish context

Identifiers

Qumran manuscript1QIsaᵃ
Israel Museum accessionHU 95.57/27

Repository / holdings

Shrine of the Book / Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project provides online examination.

Contents / scope

All 66 chapters of Isaiah are preserved in the scroll. Verse-level variants are not automatically created by this catalog entity.

Scripture / manuscript claims

Passage-specific evidence

These records say what this witness is reported or directly transcribed to attest at particular passages. They are separate from the entity identity above.

Has Passage Evidence RecordIsaiah 53:11 — Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ) readingREPORTED_DIRECT_WITNESS

A claim-specific scholarly report of 1QIsaᵃ at Isaiah 53:11 includes אור (“light”) in the sequence יראה אור וישבע. The manuscript identity/image rights remain separate from this verse-level reported transcription.

Evidence boundary: The manuscript's existence, date, contents, and repository are catalog facts. A reading at any specific Isaiah verse requires a separately curated transcription/variant record; the catalog must not substitute the Masoretic text for the scroll.