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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls altered our understanding of the development of the biblical text, the history and literature of Second Temple Judaism, and the thought of the early Christian community. Questions continue to surround the relationship between the caves in which the scrolls were found and the nearby settlement at Khirbet Qumran. In Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran, Sidnie White...

Text F). Twenty-one opisthographs (manuscripts that are inscribed on both sides of the material) have been discovered in the Qumran caves, twenty of them from Cave 4Q.107 Eight of these are papyrus Cryptic A manuscripts, mostly unidentified. Two of them are documentary texts (4Q342 and 343), which are often opisthographs. However, six have two different literary texts on the verso (first use) and recto (second use), while two (4Q324/355 and 4Q460 frag. 9/4Q350) have a literary text on the verso and
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