The Great Isaiah Scroll

The Dead Sea Scrolls facsimiles produced by Facsimile Editions are the first full-size museum-quality reproductions of three of the most significant biblical scrolls discovered at Qumran: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Manual of Discipline and the Commentary on Habakkuk.

Widely regarded as one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century, the Dead Sea Scrolls transformed modern understanding of the textual history of the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish religious world of the Second Temple period from which both Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity developed.

Created in collaboration with the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation and based on the earliest photographs made immediately after the scrolls’ discovery, these facsimiles reproduce the scrolls exactly as they appeared when first unrolled. Every stitch, crack, edge irregularity and sign of age has been painstakingly recreated by hand.

The facsimiles are used internationally by museums, libraries, universities, seminaries, collectors and religious institutions for exhibition, teaching and study, enabling audiences to engage directly with manuscripts that illuminate the ancient transmission of the biblical text and the shared historical foundations of Jewish and Christian tradition.

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 was perhaps the most important find of the 20th century providing incontrovertible proof that the many biblical texts had been faithfully transmitted over the millennia – the Dead Sea Scrolls connect the texts of the ancient past with the present. The Great Isaiah Scroll, 1 QIsa, the Manual of Discipline, 1QS and the Habakkuk Commentary, 1QpHab are the largest and most significant Scrolls.

Facsimile Editions was given unique access to the images made when the scrolls were first discovered enabling them to make exact copies of the scrolls as they were when they were found in Qumran. You may like to read more on the background to the scrolls and the story behind making the facsimile.