Thursday, February 27, 2025

New scrolls at the Reagan Library

SCROLL ROTATION: Reagan Library adds a rare group of Dead Sea Scrolls to their exhibit. At a media day at Reagan Library, experts focused on the famed 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll (Los Angeles Daily News).
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library held a media day on Wednesday, February 26, to watch the installation of a new group of Dead Sea Scrolls, including the famed 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll, a fragment of the Isaiah Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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4Q57 (a.k.a. 4QIsaiahc) is a very fragmentary copy of the book of Isaiah, in many fragments, but with quite a bit of text preserved. You can have a look here. It was published in DJD XV.

I have not found any information on the other newly added scrolls.

For background on the Reagan Library DSS exhibition, see here, here, and here.

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