These are ancient writings, on scrolls, found by an Arabboy in 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea. It is not known for certain whowrote them, when, and where. The Jewish community that used these writingswas situated in the forbidding ravine of Qumran at the northern end ofthe Dead Sea.¹

1. The Dead Sea Scriptures. Doubleday, 1976. Introduction, pages 1-3.