Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

===Biblical books found===
There are 235 biblical texts, including 10 [[deuterocanonical books]], included in the Dead Sea Scroll documents, or around 22% of the total.{{r|AbeggFlint2012|DSS-Bible}} The Dead Sea Scrolls contain parts of all but one of the books of the [[Tanakh]] of the [[Hebrew Bible]] and the [[Old Testament]] [[Protocanonical books|protocanon]]. They also include four of the deuterocanonical books included in [[Catholic Bible|Catholic]] and [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] Bibles: [[Book of Tobit|Tobit]], [[Book of Sirach|Sirach]], [[Book of Baruch|Baruch]] 6 (also known as the [[Letter of Jeremiah|Letter or Epistle of Jeremiah]]), and [[Psalm 151]].<ref name="AbeggFlint2012">{{cite book|author1=Martin G. Abegg|author2=Peter Flint|author3=Eugene Ulrich|title=The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jmm8Mvjw2WQC&pg=PR16|access-date=3 April 2013|year=2012|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0062031129|pages=16–|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101061138/http://books.google.com/books?id=Jmm8Mvjw2WQC&pg=PR16|archive-date=1 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Book of Esther]] has not yet been found, and scholars believe Esther is missing because, as a Jew, her marriage to a [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian]] king may have been looked down upon by the inhabitants of Qumran,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=44&chapid=226 |title=The Dead Sea Scrolls |publisher=Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship |access-date=13 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806141936/http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=44&chapid=226 |archive-date=6 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> or because the book has the [[Purim]] festival which is not included in the [[Hebrew calendar#The Qumran calendar|Qumran calendar]].{{r|VanderKamFlint2005}}{{rp|180}} 

Listed below are the most represented books, along with the deuterocanonicals, of the Bible found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the number of translatable Dead Sea texts that represent a copy of scripture from each biblical book:<ref>[[Theodor Gaster|Gaster, Theodor H.]], ''The Dead Sea Scriptures'', Peter Smith Pub Inc., 1976. {{ISBN|0844667021}}.</ref><ref>E. Tov, "Joshua, Book of," in ''Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls'' (eds. L.H. Schiffman and J.C. VanderKam; 2 vols.; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) 1: 431. {{ISBN?}}</ref>

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! Book !! Number found
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| [[Psalms]] || 39
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| Deuteronomy || 33
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| 1 Enoch || 25
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| [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] || 24
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| Isaiah || 22
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| Jubilees || 21
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| [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] || 18
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| [[Book of Leviticus|Leviticus]] || 17
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| Numbers || 11
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| [[Minor Prophets]] || 10{{NoteTag|10 Scrolls containing fragments of all 12 of the "Minor Prophets" were found in Cave 4, although no fragment contains portions of more than three prophets.<ref name="von Weissenberg">{{cite journal |last=von Weissenberg |first=Hanne |title=The Twelve Minor Prophets at Qumran and the Canonical Process:Amos as a "Case Study" |pages=357–376 |url = https://www.academia.edu/393434 |journal=The Hebrew Bible in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls |access-date=3 October 2014 }}</ref>}}
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| [[Book of Daniel|Daniel]] || 8
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| [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] || 6
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| [[Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel]] || 6
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| [[Book of Job|Job]] || 6
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| Tobit || 5{{NoteTag|There are four Aramaic fragmentary texts of Tobit, and one Hebrew text.<ref>A.A. Di Lella, [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/19-tobit-nets.pdf ''New English Translation of the Septuagint'', "Tobit" (PDF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917190042/http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/19-tobit-nets.pdf |date=17 September 2011 }}, 2007.</ref>}}
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| [[Books of Kings|Kings]] || 4
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| [[Book of Samuel|Samuel]] || 4
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| [[Book of Judges|Judges]] || 4<ref name=Rezetko>{{cite journal |last=Rezetko |first=Robert |title=The Qumran Scrolls of the Book of Judges: Literary Formation, Textual Criticism, and Historical Linguistics |journal=Journal of Hebrew Scriptures |year=2013 |volume=13 |issue=2 |page=9 |doi=10.5508/jhs.2013.v13.a2 |doi-access=free |hdl=2066/120003 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
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| [[Song of Songs|Song of Songs (Canticles)]] || 4
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| [[Book of Ruth|Ruth]] || 4
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| [[Book of Lamentations|Lamentations]] || 4
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| Sirach || 3
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| [[Ecclesiastes]] || 2
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| Joshua || 2
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