27. Qumran Cave number 4. The Hebrew script of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods before 70 AD (third cent. BC–AD first cent.) used the Hebrew square script (Assyrian or literary style script), and it is still in use today.18m The script is used in many of the Dead Sea Scroll (DSS) manuscripts discovered in the caves around Khirbet Qumran in 1946 and 1947.19m Portions of approximately 931 manuscripts were recovered from eleven caves on the west side of the Jordan valley (kikkār). A twelfth cave
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