Editing Deuterocanonical books (section)

===Dead Sea scrolls===
The [[Book of Sirach]], whose [[Biblical Hebrew|Hebrew]] text was already known from the [[Cairo Geniza]], has been found in two of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] (2QSir or 2Q18, 11QPs_a or 11Q5) in Hebrew. Another Hebrew scroll of ''Sirach'' has been found in [[Masada#Epigraphic findings|Masada]] (MasSir).<ref name="Abegg">{{cite book |last1=Abegg |first1=Martin |last2=Flint |first2=Peter |last3=Ulrich |first3=Eugene |title=The Dead Sea Scroll Bible |year=1999|publisher=HarperOne|isbn=978-0060600648}}</ref>{{rp|597}} Five fragments from the [[Book of Tobit]] have been found in Qumran written in [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]] and in one written in Hebrew (papyri 4Q, nos. 196–200).{{Efn|See in {{Cite web|title=The Dead Sea Scrolls – Browse Manuscripts – Apocrypha |url=https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/search#q=composition_type_parent_en:'Apocrypha' |access-date=2020-06-20 |website=The Dead Sea Scrolls – Browse Manuscripts}}|name=DSS|group=}}<ref name="Abegg" />{{rp|636}} The ''[[Letter of Jeremiah]]'' (or ''[[Book of Baruch|Baruch]]'' chapter 6) has been found in cave 7 (papyrus [[7Q2]]) in [[Koine Greek|Greek]].<ref name="Abegg" />{{rp|628}}

Recent scholars have suggested<ref>Lena Cansdale 1997, ''Qumran and the Essenes'' pp. 14 ff. cites Rengstorf 1963, Golb 1980, and several others, as well as detractors of this theory.</ref> that the Qumran library of approximately 1,100 manuscripts found in the eleven caves at [[Qumran]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zukeran|first1=Patrick|title=Unless I See ... Is There Enough Evidence to Believe?|date=2011|publisher=CrossBooks|isbn=978-1462706204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWZIHreuvnAC&q=eleven+caves+discovered+1%2C100&pg=PA143|access-date=11 March 2016}}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> was not entirely produced at Qumran, but may have included part of the library of the Jerusalem Temple, that may have been hidden in the caves for safekeeping at the time the Temple was destroyed by Romans in 70&nbsp;AD.