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In 2000, Armin Lange published in DJD a fragment of a scroll that had been purchased in the 1960s by a Finnish clergyman who insisted on remaining anonymous but who bequeathed it to the State of Israel (the fragment is now in the Shrine of the Book). This fragment had parts of six lines, but Lange was unable to identify them. After it was published, it was identified as coming from one of the copies of 4QInstruction, 4Q418 (DJD 36:492–93; Puech and Steudel 2000; Tigchelaar 2001, 125). In 2003 I was asked to serve as the academic adviser to several American collectors who owned rare copies of the Bible when they organized exhibitions about the history of the Bible and its English translations.
Most of the Wadi ed-Daliyeh documents are about slaves, whereas the later ones never mention them. The excavations at Masada, led by Yadin, ran from October 1963 through April 1965. Fifteen Hebrew scrolls were unearthed in the fortress (one on papyrus). 25 The scrolls found at Masada can be divided into three groups: seven biblical scrolls, four scrolls with parts of apocryphal texts, and four other scrolls. The biblical scrolls include a fragment of Genesis; two Leviticus scrolls; three fragments of a Deuteronomy scroll; fifty fragments of an Ezekiel scroll; and two scrolls of Psalms.
000 fragments, the Bedouin, who were pushed aside by other Bedouin who would not allow them to continue sifting the dirt in the cave, brought de Vaux to the cave on September 1952. 6 A grand total of more than 16,000 fragments, from some six hundred scrolls and three hundred literary works, were found in this cave. Because of the straight cuts in some Cave 4 fragments de Vaux conjectured that a Roman legionary entered Cave 4a in the winter of AD 68, when the Tenth Legion occupied Qumran, and cut up the scrolls with his sword, cf.