Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

====The Facsimile Edition (2007–2008)====
In November 2007 the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation commissioned the London publisher Facsimile Editions Limited to produce a facsimile edition of The Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIs<sup>a</sup>), The Order of the Community (1QS), and The Pesher to Habakkuk (1QpHab).<ref name="Georgson">{{cite thesis | type=M.Divinity |title=Book Digitization: a Practical and Urgent Necessity for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |url=http://essays.wisluthsem.org:8080/bitstream/handle/123456789/111/SeniorThesis2012Georgson.pdf |last=Georgson |first=Seth |year=2012 |publisher=Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary |page=26 |access-date=15 December 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{citation |author=Rocker |first=Simon |title=The Dead Sea Scrolls...made in St John's Wood |date=16 November 2007 |url=http://website.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m13s100&AId=56661 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726031448/http://website.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m13s100&AId=56661 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead |publisher=The Jewish Chronicle}}.</ref> The facsimile was produced from 1948 photographs and so more faithfully represents the condition of the Isaiah Scroll at the time of its discovery than does the current condition of the Isaiah Scroll.{{r|Georgson}}

Of the first three facsimile sets, one was exhibited at the ''Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls'' exhibition in Seoul, South Korea, and a second set was purchased by the British Library in London. A further 46 sets including facsimiles of three fragments from Cave 4 (now in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Amman, Jordan) Testimonia (4Q175), Pesher Isaiah<sup>b</sup> (4Q162) and Qohelet (4Q109) were announced in May 2009. The edition is strictly limited to 49 numbered sets of these reproductions on either specially prepared parchment paper or real parchment.{{r|Georgson}} The facsimiles have since been exhibited in ''Qumrân. Le secret des manuscrits de la mer Morte'' at the [[Bibliothèque Nationale]], Paris, France (2010)<ref>{{citation |author=von Uthmann |first=Jorg |title=Exhibit offers context for Dead Sea Scrolls |date=18 June 2010 |url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100618/ARTICLE/6181000 |access-date=17 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118052340/http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100618/ARTICLE/6181000 |archive-date=18 November 2015 |url-status=dead |publisher=HeraldTribune.com}}.</ref> and ''Verbum Domini'' at the [[Vatican City|Vatican]], Rome, Italy (2012).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.news.va/en/news/verbum-domini-bible-exhibit-opens-in-vatican |title= 'Verbum Domini' Bible Exhibit opens in Vatican |publisher=News.va |date=29 February 2012 |access-date=17 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118070818/http://www.news.va/en/news/verbum-domini-bible-exhibit-opens-in-vatican |archive-date=18 November 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>