scroll / scrollsThese were rolls of parchment that could contain records or history of kings and countries. Also refers to the Old Testament or Hebrew books of the Bible that were each written on such materials. The Greek word for scroll (biblos) is where we get the English word "Bible". Some scrolls where found by a shepherd boy in a cave as early as 1947; more were found up to 1956. These have become known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The most famous of these findings was the almost complete book of Isaiah.
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