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Are you looking for trivia on the Dead Sea Scrolls ? Check us out.

• When and where were the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered?
  The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in eleven caves along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea between the years 1947 and 1956. The fragmented texts, are numbered according to the cave they were discovered in.

• How many different scrolls were identified?
  In all, scholars have identified the remains of about 825 to 870 separate scrolls.

• Did you know?
  The prophecies by Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Daniel not found in the Bible are written in the Scrolls.

• What type of building did the Dead Sea Scrolls appear to be located?
  The Scrolls appear to be the library of a Jewish sect. The library was hidden away in caves around the outbreak of the First Jewish Revolt (A.D. 66-70) as the Roman army advanced against the rebel Jews.

• What sect appear to have written the Scrolls?
  The Dead Sea Scrolls were most likely written by the Essenes during the period from about 200 B.C. to 68 C.E./A.D.

• Whose last words appear in the Scrolls?
  The last words of Joseph, Judah, Levi, Naphtali, and Amram (the father of Moses).

• What was the longest scroll and what is its present length?
  The Temple Scroll, found in Cave 11. Its present total length is 26.7 feet (8.148 meters).

• What language were the Scrolls written?
  The Scrolls are for the most part, written in Hebrew, but there are many written in Aramaic. Aramaic was the common language of the Jews of Palestine for the last two centuries B.C. and of the first two centuries A.D.

• Where are the texts that came from Caves 1 and 11, presently, located?
  Shrine of the Book museum in Jerusalem.

• What were the scrolls written on?
  Animal skins, but also papyrus and one of copper.

• How were the Scrolls written?
  They are written with a carbon-based ink, from right to left, using no punctuation except for an occasional paragraph indentation. In fact, in some cases, there are not even spaces between the words.