Explaining The Bible on Instagram: "The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts, primarily written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in caves near the Dead Sea in Qumran, Israel. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE, they include biblical texts (portions of nearly every Old Testament book except Esther), apocryphal writings, and sectarian documents associated with a Jewish community, likely the Essenes. These scrolls provide