Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Scribe" in English language version.
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It is a well-known truism that the different sites in the Judean Desert yielded fragments of all the books included in the canon of the Hebrew Bible except Esther. It should nevertheless be noted, in this regard, that the identification of 4Q118 as a fragment from Chronicles - the only fragment of Chronicles found among the Dead Sea Scrolls - remains highly doubtful [...]. [...] Taking into account the canons of the eastern churches, reference should also be made to the numerous fragments of the book of Jubilees and 1 Henoch, as well as to the longer version of Psalm 151 found in 11QPsa.
With the possible exception of Nehemiah Esther is the only book in the traditional Hebrew Bible not represented among the manuscripts found at Qumran, Masada, and other sites near the Dead Sea. [...] Research and evidence from certain nonbiblical scrolls, however, show that Esther was rejected by the Qumran community for theological reasons.
The scrolls, biblical and sectarian, [...] contain fragments of all the books of the Hebrew Bible (with the exception of the Book of Esther), as well as a complete text of Isaiah.
[...] 1QIsa contains the entire book of Isaiah. All of the other representatives of 'biblical' books are fragmentary to one degree or another, usually to a very high degree. [...] The list below gives the numbers of identified copies for each book of the Hebrew Bible. [...] Deuteronomy 30
The Dead Sea Scrolls testify, on the whole, to the accuracy with which the Bible was copied through the ages [...].