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Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls

Psalms Scroll
Language: Hebrew
Discovered: 1956
Date: Early 1st century A.D.

In the scrolls, Psalms is the most frequently found book of the Hebrew Bible. This fragment comes from the largest Psalms scroll found and has never before traveled outside of Israel.

This scroll is read from right to left.

The far right column includes some of the last 10 verses of Psalm 132, beginning with the words "…to your resting place."