When the museum came under the administration of the Israeli government after the Six-Day War in 1967, the museum assigned the Leviticus Scroll to D.N. The Leviticus Scroll was obtained by the Rockefeller Museum (formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum) in May of 1956 where it was kept in the museum's scrollery, and there remained largely untouched for 12 years, until it could be examined by researchers. 11 yielded, among other manuscripts, the Great Psalms Scroll (11QPs), the Temple Scroll (11QT being the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll. The cache of manuscripts found in cave no. The entrance to the cave had been sealed off by fallen debris and large boulders, while part of the cave's roof had also collapsed, keeping the cave inaccessible for many centuries. It was found in January of 1956 by local Bedouins of the Taʿamireh clan, in what is now known as " Qumran Cave 11", about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Khirbet Qumran, where it had been stashed along with other manuscripts. The paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll was one of the last among them to be discovered. The discovery of the first Dead Sea scrolls in 1947 brought in its wake a flurry of epigraphic discoveries in the Qumran region. Today, the paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll (11QpaleoLev) is housed at the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), but is not on public display. 950–918 BCE), and the paleo-Hebrew sacerdotal blessing discovered in 1979 near the St Andrew's Church in Jerusalem, is of no less importance to palaeography -even though the manuscript is fragmentary and only partially preserved on leather parchment. 6th-century BCE), the Gezer calendar (ca. The paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll, although many centuries more recent than the well-known earlier ancient paleo-Hebrew epigraphic materials, such as the Royal Steward inscription from Siloam, Jerusalem (8th century BCE), now in the Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul, and the Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmun-Azar at Sidon, dating to the fifth-fourth century BCE, the Lachish ostraca (ca. The scroll is thought to have been penned by the scribe between the late 2nd century BCE to early 1st century BCE, while others place its writing in the 1st century CE. 11 at Qumran, showing a portion of Leviticus. The fragmentary remains of the Torah scroll is written in the Paleo-Hebrew script and was found stashed away in cave no. Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus Scroll, known also as 11QpaleoLev, is an ancient text preserved in one of the Qumran group of caves, and which provides a rare glimpse of the script used formerly by the Israelites in writing Torah scrolls during pre- exilic history. il /explore-the-archive /image /B-295277 Courtesy of The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library IAA, photo: Shai Halevi
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