Complex sentence: The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 that consist of biblical manuscripts from what is now known as the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name.
Split into simpler sentences: The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956, consisting of biblical manuscripts from what is now known as the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents. They were found on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name.