page_title: Dead Sea Scrolls
section_title: Physical characteristics
hierarchical_section_title: Dead Sea Scrolls / Physical characteristics
caption_attribution_description: Polski: dwa fragmenty oznaczone jako 7Q6,1 i 7Q6,2 English: 7Q6,1 and 7Q6,2
context_page_description: The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. The texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. Almost all of the Dead Sea Scrolls are held by the state of Israel in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum, but ownership of the scrolls is disputed by Jordan and Palestine.
  Many thousands of written fragments have been discovered in the Dead Sea area. They represent the remnants of larger manuscripts damaged by natural causes or through human interference, with the vast majority holding only small scraps of text.
caption: Fragments 1 and 2 of '7Q6' from Cave 7 are written on papyrus.
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