Temple Scroll (11Q19)

Evidence state: documented fact

One of the longest Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting an idealized temple and legal/cultic program in Hebrew. Cataloged for Second-Temple Jewish legal, architectural, and cultic research.

Release Introduced

v50

Curation State

CURATED_CATALOG_ENTITY

Short Title

11Q19

Evidence Classification

documented fact

Date Range

{
    "start_bce": 150,
    "end_bce": 25,
    "label": "late 2nd–1st century BCE",
    "certainty": "broad scholarly range retained conservatively for catalog use"
}

Languages

[
    "Hebrew"
]

Tradition Contexts

[
    "JEWISH_CONTEXT"
]

Identifiers

[
    {
        "scheme": "Qumran manuscript",
        "value": "11Q19"
    }
]

Repository Note

Shrine of the Book / Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Contents Scope

Temple/legal composition. Its textual relationship to Pentateuchal passages must be studied claim by claim rather than treated as a biblical manuscript witness.

Source Ids

[
    "SRC_IMJ_DSS_TEMPLE_SCROLL"
]

Rights

{
    "image_state": "LINK_ONLY",
    "transcription_state": "LINK_ONLY_PENDING_RIGHTS_REVIEW",
    "local_host_state": "RIGHTS_REVIEW_REQUIRED"
}

Evidence Boundary

11Q19 is historical Jewish legal/cultic evidence. It is not classified as a direct biblical textual witness merely because it reuses or reformulates Torah material.