The Dead Sea Scrolls are the remains of ancient Jewish books that were hidden in caves near Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, and that nobody saw again for about two thousand years. Bedouin shepherds came on the first of them in 1947, and over the next nine years eleven caves yielded tens of thousands of fragments, what is left of more than 900 different works in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. The oldest were copied in the…

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