Temple Scroll

The Temple Scroll (11Q19), at 8.146 metres, is the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls and presents itself as a rewritten Torah, describing an idealized Temple and its rituals.|||11Q19, discovered in 1956 in Cave 11. 18 sheets of parchment, 3–4 columns each, total length 8.146 metres. Written in square Herodian Hebrew.|||Composed in the late 2nd century BCE or 1st century BCE.|||Not canonical in any tradition.|||The longest Dead Sea Scroll. Presents an idealized Temple and its rituals, with direct divine speech. Important for understanding the Qumran community's temple theology and halakhah.|||Yadin, Y. The Temple Scroll. Israel Exploration Society, 1983.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Dead Sea Scrolls, Volume 7: The Temple Scroll. Princeton, 2011.|||Schiffman, L. H. " The Temple Scroll and the Halakhic Systems of the Qumran Community." DSD 5 (1998).|||The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls (Israel Museum)|https://dss.collections.imj.org.il/|View the complete Temple Scroll in high resolution.;; Wikipedia — Temple Scroll|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Scroll|Background and scholarship.|||" And I will dwell in their midst forever, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people." — Temple Scroll (paraphrase)