Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaᵃ)

Evidence state: documented fact

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.

Release Introduced

v50

Curation State

CURATED_CATALOG_ENTITY

Short Title

1QIsaᵃ

Evidence Classification

documented fact

Date Range

{
    "start_bce": 150,
    "end_bce": 100,
    "label": "ca. 125 BCE",
    "certainty": "approximate; Israel Museum exhibition and digital-scroll dating"
}

Languages

[
    "Hebrew"
]

Tradition Contexts

[
    "BIBLICAL_TEXTUAL_WITNESS",
    "JEWISH_CONTEXT"
]

Identifiers

[
    {
        "scheme": "Qumran manuscript",
        "value": "1QIsaᵃ"
    },
    {
        "scheme": "Israel Museum accession",
        "value": "HU 95.57/27"
    }
]

Repository Note

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.

Source Ids

[
    "SRC_IMJ_DSS_GREAT_ISAIAH"
]

Rights

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

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.