Home›Abrahamic (Monotheistic)›Scriptures›Temple ScrollScriptures & TextsTemple ScrollDead Sea ScrollsScriptural and Theological TraditionVerifiedThe longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, recovered from Cave 11 near Qumran and running to roughly eight and a half metres, presenting itself as divine speech to Moses that supplements and in places rewrites Pentateuchal law. It sets out detailed architectural instructions for an ideal Temple far larger than either Solomon's or Herod's, its courts and purity regulations, a festival calendar including festivals not attested in the Hebrew Bible itself, and a law of the king governing royal conduct and military levy. Its relationship to the wider Qumran sectarian corpus is debated: some scholars read it as a distinctively sectarian composition, others as an older text the community preserved rather than authored.FactsTemple ScrollConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOriginsEra of CompositionWell-attestedThe surviving manuscript dates paleographically to the late Herodian period, roughly the first half of the first century CE, though the text it copies is generally judged older, with composition estimates ranging across the second century BCE. 1LanguageWell-attestedBiblical Hebrew 1StatusCanonical StatusWell-attestedNon-canonical 1Never part of the Hebrew Bible or any later Jewish or Christian canon; its status among the Qumran community that preserved it is itself a subject of scholarly debate.StructureStructureWell-attestedThe longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, presenting rewritten Torah material in the first person voice of God, covering the architecture of an idealized Temple, purity law, festival calendar and a law code drawn largely from Deuteronomy. 1TextLiterary FormWell-attestedLaw code 1TransmissionManuscript TraditionWell-attestedPreserved in one substantially complete copy (11Q19) plus fragments of at least one further copy (11Q20) from Qumran Cave 11, and a possible related fragment from Cave 4; acquired by Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin in 1967 and published in full in 1977. 1Temple ScrollFilter Results1 entryPlace of OriginAllJudea (1)DenominationsAllBeta Israel (1)Breslov Hasidism (1)Chabad-Lubavitch (1)Conservative Judaism (1)Haredi Judaism (1)Hasidic Judaism (1)Humanistic Judaism (1)Karaite Judaism (1)Modern Orthodox Judaism (1)Orthodox Judaism (1)Reconstructionist Judaism (1)Reform Judaism (1)Where PractisedAllBabylonia (1)Central Europe (1)Galilee (1)Holy Land (1)Iberia and Southern France (1)Judea (1)Near East (1)North Africa (1)Rhineland (1)Samaria (1)The Levant (1)West Bank (1)Origin EraAll-586 (1)Conception of the DivineAllMonotheistic: one God (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (1)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)Closed Practice StatusAllPartly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (1)Giving Obligation EnforceabilityAllCustomary Norm (1)Usury PositionAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Sexuality PositionAllThe body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (1)Kind of TraditionAllAbrahamic (Monotheistic) (1)Show ResultsJudaismTemple ScrollConnectionsAssociated WithQumran, Sacred Sites Well-attested This source names Qumran directly: "Scrolls, recovered from Cave 11 near Qumran and running to roughly eight and a half metres, presenting itself as divine speech to Moses that supplements and in places rewrites Pentateuchal law."Source The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in EnglishGeza Vermestier 1Belongs to TraditionJudaism, Religions Well-attested Source The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in EnglishGeza Vermestier 1In LanguageBiblical Hebrew, Languages Well-attested Originates in LanguageBiblical Hebrew, Languages Well-attested Source The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in EnglishGeza Vermestier 1Sources1. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in Englishtier 1Geza Vermes, Penguin, 2004Originates in Language: Biblical Hebrew, Stored language property on this entity, cited to this source: biblical-hebrewView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.