Books of Samuel
The Samuel scroll was a collective name of fragments containing parts of the Books of Samuel which were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered the first time in 1947, by a Bedouin shepherd who stumbled across them in what was termed "The greatest archaeological find of the twentieth century" by William Foxwell Albright. Among these scrolls were over 930 biblical manuscripts - the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible, over 1000 years older than the Masoretic text from which the Old Testament was then translated from. Among these manuscripts, four contain parts of what is commonly referred to as "The First and Second Books of Samuel".