For the first time since 1968, the great Isaiah scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls is being displayed in its full length at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The scroll is the oldest nearly complete book of the Hebrew Bible ever discovered, stretching over 7 metres (23 feet). This remarkable scroll contains the entire book of Isaiah, preserved for more than 2,000 years in the dry caves near Qumran in Israel.
The scroll, meticulously written in ancient Hebrew, has shaped Jewish and Christian faith for millennia. Texts like Isaiah chapters 7, 9, 40, 53, and 61 echo with prophetic hope, and seeing them as they appear two centuries before Jesus’ birth brings the scriptures to life with breathtaking authenticity.
The Dead Sea Scrolls are more than just an ancient Hebrew manuscript. They are the bridge from God’s promises in the past to his faithfulness toward His people today.
They were discovered in 1947, just one year before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, a moment when the world was questioning Israel’s right to exist as a modern nation.
The scrolls stood as Israel’s ancient deed to the land that God promised them.
These 2,000-year-old biblical texts declare that this land was given to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacobโthe Jewish people.
