Biblical Manuscripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls   The earliest manuscripts of Jewish scripture are those found in the Judean desert at Qumran, Murabba'at, Wadi Sdeir, Nahal Hever, Nahal Se'elim, and Masada (see map). These manuscripts date from 250 B.C.E.--135 C.E. Some 283 biblical manuscripts were found in total, 258 from Qumran alone.  Most of these manuscripts were inscribed in paleo or square-script Hebrew, although some 9 manuscripts are in Greek, 7 of them identifiable, and 8 of them from Qumran.   Texts Various Authors.  The Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Series, 39 volumes.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1955-.  [Hebrew]   Abegg, Martin G., Peter W. Flint and Eugene Ulrich.  The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999.   [English]   Online Texts & Tools The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature - hosted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.   Studies Tov, Emanuel.  The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint, VTSup 72.  Leiden: Brill, 1999.   --------.  "The Significance of the Texts from the Judean Desert for the History of the Text of the Hebrew Bible; a New Synthesis."  In Qumran between the Old and New Testaments, (eds. Frederick H. Cryer and Thomas L. Thompson; JSOTSup 290; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998) 277-309.   Ulrich, Eugene. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible, Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature. Grand Rapids, Michigan/Leiden: William B. Eerdmans/E. J. Brill, 1999. © 2017 Catherine Murphy, Associate Professor cmurphy@scu.edu   Dept of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053