The texts

The texts are generally of excellent religious as well as historical value, as they include the oldest identified remaining copies of Biblical and extra-biblical records and maintain evidence of excellent diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They have got prompted rigorous scholarly discussion as to who their authors may have been, and they've given us a rare glimpse into what existence had been like at about the time of Christ. Other discovers followed: in 1952 Cavern three was found, including the Copper Scroll. The most crucial Cavern for our purposes was Cave 4, discovered in 1954.

Figure 5: Cavern n.4

They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Most of these manuscripts generally date in between $150 BCE$ and $70 CE$.