The following is a list of the Dead Sea Scrolls from the cave 2 near Qumran. The cave eventually yielded 300 fragments from 33 manuscripts of Dead Sea Scrolls, including fragments of Jubilees and the Wisdom of Sirach written in Hebrew.
Description Wadi Qumran Cave 2 was discovered in February 1952 and soon the Bedouin people discovered 30 fragments in it.VanderKam, James C., The Dead Sea Scrolls Today, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994. pp. 10–11. The cave eventually yielded 300 fragments from 33 manuscripts of Dead Sea Scrolls, including fragments of Jubilees and the Wisdom of Sirach written in Hebrew.
List of manuscripts Some resources for more complete information on the Dead Sea Scrolls are the book by Emanuel Tov, "Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert" for a complete list of all of the Dead Sea Scroll texts, as well as the online webpages for the Shrine of the Book and the Leon Levy Collection, both of which present photographs and images of the scrolls and fragments themselves for closer study. Information is not always comprehensive, as content for many scrolls has not yet been fully published. {|class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" |- ! Fragment or scroll identifier ! Fragment or scroll name ! Alternative identifier ! English Bible Association ! Language ! Date/script ! Description ! Reference |- ! colspan="8" style="background:#b8c7d6;"| Qumran Cave 2 |- |2QGen ||Genesis |2Q1|| Genesis 19:27–28; 36:6, 35–37 |rowspan=5| Hebrew |rowspan=3| Herodian | |2Q1 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QExoda |rowspan=3|Exodus |2Q2|| Exodus 1:11–14; 7:1–4; 9:27–29; 11:3–7; 12:32–41; 21:18–20(?); 26:11–13; 30:21(?), 23–25; 32:32–34 | |2Q2 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QExodb |2Q3|| Exodus 4:31; 12:26–27(?); 18:21–22; 21:37–22:2, 15–19; 27:17–19; 31:16–17; 19:9; 34:10 | |2Q3 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QExodc |2Q4|| Exodus 5:3–5 |Hellenistic-Roman | |2Q4 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QpaleoLev ||Leviticus |2Q5|| Leviticus 11:22–29 | Hasmonean; Palaeo-Hebrew script | |2Q5 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QNuma |rowspan=4| Numbers |2Q6|| Numbers 3:38–41, 51– 4:3 |rowspan=4| Hebrew |rowspan=3| Herodian | |2Q6 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QNumb |2Q7|| Numbers 33:47–53 | |2Q7 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QNumc |2Q8|| Numbers 7:88 | |2Q8 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QNumd? |2Q9|| Numbers 18:8–9 |Hellenistic-Roman |This fragment may belong to 2Q7; possibly = Leviticus 23:1–3 |2Q9 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QDeuta |rowspan=3|Deuteronomy |2Q10 |Deuteronomy 1:7–9 ||Hebrew |50–25 BCE Late Hasmonean or Early Herodian
| 2QDeutb |2Q11|| Deuteronomy 17:12–15 ||Hebrew |30 BCE – 68 CE Herodian
|2QDeutc |2Q12|| Deuteronomy 10:8–12 ||Hebrew |1–68 CE Late Herodian
|2QJer ||Jeremiah |2Q13|| Jeremiah 42:7–11, 14; 43:8–11; 44:1–3, 12–14; 46:27–47:7; 48:7, 25–39, 43–45; 49:10 |rowspan=3|Hebrew |rowspan=3|Herodian |Doubtfully identified fragments: 13:22; 32:24–25; 48:2–4, 41–42 |2Q13 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QPs || Psalms |2Q14|| Psalm 103:2–11; 104:6–11 | |2Q14 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QJob ||Job |2Q15|| Job 33:28–30 | |2Q15 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- | 2QRutha |rowspan=2|Ruth |2Q16|| Ruth 2:13–23; 3:1–8; 4:3–4 |rowspan=2| Hebrew |Herodian | |2Q16 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QRuthb |2Q17|| Ruth 3:13–18 |Hasmonean | |2Q17 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QSir || "Wisdom of Sirach" or "Ecclesiasticus" |2Q18 |Sir 6:14–15 (or 1:19–20); 6:20–31 |Hebrew |Herodian |Ben Sira |2Q18 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QJuba || Book of Jubilees |2Q19|| Genesis 25:7–9 |rowspan=2|Hebrew |rowspan=2 |Herodian |Jub 23:7–8 |2Q19 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QJubb || Book of Jubilees |2Q20|| Exodus 1:7; Genesis 50:26, 22 (different order) |Jub 46:1–3 |2Q20 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QapMoses /2QapocrMoses(?)|| "Apocryphon of Moses" |2Q21|| |Hebrew |Herodian |Apocryphal writing about Moses |2Q21 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QapDavid /2QapocrDavid|| "Apocryphon of David" |2Q22|| ||Hebrew |Herodian |Apocryphal writing about David |2Q22 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QapProph /2Qapocr.Prophecy || "Apocryphal Prophecy" |2Q23|| ||Hebrew |Herodian |Apocryphal prophetic text in six tiny fragments. |2Q23 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- | 2QNJ || "New Jerusalem" |2Q24 || || Aramaic |Herodian |Description of the New Jerusalem. cf. 1Q32 ar, 11Q18 ar |2Q24 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- | 2Q Juridical Text || "Juridical Text" |2Q25|| ||Hebrew |Herodian |A juridical text |2Q25 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- |2QEnGiants || "Book of Giants" from "Enoch" |2Q26 | |Aramaic |Herodian |Now known as part of the "Book of Giants". cf. 6Q8 ||2Q26 at the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library |- | 2Q27 2Q28 2Q29
2Q30 2Q31
2Q32 2Q33 || |2Q27 2Q28 2Q29
2Q30 2Q31
2Q32 2Q33
||| Unidentified Texts
|2QX1 | |2QX1 || || || |Debris in a box
See also Biblical manuscripts Septuagint manuscripts List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts
References OakTree Software, Inc. Accordance 10: Bible Software. 2008.
Bibliography
External links A Catalog of Biblical Passages in the Dead Sea Scrolls by David Washburn, 2002 Textual Criticism: Recovering the Text of the Hebrew Bible by Peter Kyle McCarter, 1986