scroll · Hebrew · OT

Great Psalms Scroll

Also known as: 11QPs-a, 11Q5, 11Q Psalms Scroll

AD 1 – AD 68 (~AD 50) · dated by paleography

Evidence card

A quick read on the physical object before the interpretive summary.

3 sources

Artifact

scroll · Hebrew

Date basis

AD 1 – AD 68 (~AD 50) · paleography

Survival

~30% physically present

Contents

Psalms selected psalms in a different order, plus Psalm 151 and other compositions

Artifact/map cue

Held at Israel Antiquities Authority · Discovery: 1956, Qumran Cave 11

Date

AD 1 – AD 68 (~AD 50)

Passage represented

Psalms selected psalms in a different order, plus Psalm 151 and other compositions

Fragmentary or partial witness

How much survives

~30% of the claimed text is physically present

Why it matters

The largest Psalms manuscript from Qumran. Its order and extra compositions show that the Psalter's shape was still fluid in the late Second Temple period, even while many individual psalms were already being copied as Scripture.

What it contains

Psalms — selected psalms in a different order, plus Psalm 151 and other compositions (partial)

~30% of the claimed text is physically present.

Notable readings

Psalm 151

Includes Hebrew material behind Psalm 151, a psalm outside the Masoretic 150-psalm collection.

This is why Psalm 151 appears in some ancient traditions but not in the standard Hebrew Psalter.

Where & when

Held at: Israel Antiquities Authority
Discovery: 1956, Qumran Cave 11

Source trail

Named catalogues, editions, libraries, or scholarship used for this manuscript page.