This paper is highly beneficial for the class of "Hebrew Scriptures" because it discusses the history of the scrolls and briefly analyzes the few that found at Qumran. It also gives insight into the present development and mysteries surrounding the scrolls raising the interest level of the student in the archaeological find.

The first discovery of the scrolls was made in the spring of 1947 when young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a lost goat in the cliffs along the Dead Sea in Judean Desert, went into a cave that had never been visited before by anyone and found jars filled with ancient scrolls. These jars discovered by the Bedouin had seven scrolls, which they sold to a cobbler and antiquities dealer called Kando. Kando did not keep them with

The Calendrical Document Scroll as the name suggest was based on the calendar. The significant features of this calendar were that it was based on a solar system and consisted of 364 days. The New Year always began on a Wednesday, the day on which it was believed that God created the heavenly bodies. There were fifty-two weeks in a year, which was divided into four seasons of thirteen weeks each. The festivals always fell on the same days of the week. It was one if the important factors that separated the community from the rest of Judaism. For the mainstream community the festivals and fast days of the group were ordinary workdays vice versa. Thus the calendar was a sort of a timetable for its followers.

The current and interesting discoveries

This scroll penned in an ancient Hebrew script on the grain side of a sheepskin consists of parts of the final chapters (22-27) of Leviticus, the third book in the Pentateuch, which explains the laws of sacrifice, atonement, and holiness.

The scroll was found in different caves. One of its complete copies comprising of eleven columns was discovered in Cave 1 whereas small other copies were found in Cave 4 and in Cave 5.

The answer to the query as to what destroyed Qumran that is related to the scrolls lies in the Bible's description, in Genesis 19. It speaks of a destructive earthquake near the Dead Sea area during the time of Abraham that destroyed the cities of Zeboim, Admah, Bela or Zoar, Sodom, Gomorrah, Masada, Ein Gedi, and Qumran. The remains of Zeboim, Admah, Bela or Zoar, Sodom, Gomorrah have not been found and it is believed that they are beneath the waters at the southern end of the sea. The rest have been found and Qumran is where the scrolls were discovered.

A general overview of the various scrolls found is briefly stated as under:

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