Eleazar Sukenik purchased the scroll from an antiquities dealer in Bethlehem named Faidi Salahi, who had purchased the scroll from the Bedouin, on 21 December 1947.[3] Much of the scroll is dark and blackened, preserved in multiple fragments, and in four major sheets that contain the upper section of the last third of the book.[3]Paleography dates the scroll to the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian period in the first century BCE.[3]
^ abFlint, Peter W. (2013). The Dead Sea Scrolls. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press. pp. 2–6. ISBN978-0-687-49449-1.
^García Martínez, Florentino (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition. Leiden: Brill. pp. 4–5. ISBN978-0802844934.
^ abcUlrich, Eugene; Flint, Peter W. (2010). Qumran cave 1. II, The Isaiah scrolls. Ulrich, Eugene; Flint, Peter W.; Abegg, Martin G., Jr. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 12–13, 21. ISBN9780199566679. OCLC708744480.
