Given this background, it is unsurprising that the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls—some of whom wrote as early as the third century BCE—were intensely interested in this topic. Schiffman examines two detailed plans for the Temple and its environs found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in his article “Sublime Sanctuary: The Jerusalem Temple in the Dead Sea Scrolls,” published in the Summer 2026 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review.The BAR article is behind the subscription wall, but this essay gives an informative summary of it.
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