War Scroll · 1QM
A separately identified Dead Sea Scroll study target.
Record reviewed 2026-11-05 ·
- Catalogue reference
- 1QM
- Institution / route
- Israel Museum · custody confirmation requested
- Region / collection context
- Judaean Desert
- Language
- Hebrew
- Physical form
- Scroll
- Translation evidence
- English edition located
- Access route
- Public source route
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What the record covers
A damaged ancient witness. Surviving columns, unreadable writing and editorial reconstructions must remain visible.
Edition and translation
Walsh 2019 quotes 1QM XVII:5–8 and cites Yadin 1962, English translation Batya and Chaim Rabin, p. 340. The full print edition and photographs were not collated.
The open research question
Confirm current custody and a current edition covering the exact columns to be studied.
Image and publication rights
Institution-hosted reading route. No image redistribution or new translation licence recorded for Babylon.
Dates and historical context
No numeric date has been assigned in this catalogue. A title, an ancient attribution or an older catalogue entry is insufficient to fix a date for the physical witness.
Dates for a copy or material do not automatically establish the date of composition, the events narrated, or a symbolic cycle.
Carry the reading into Babylon
Begin with the surviving words and the edition’s own uncertainty. Then explore Babylon’s named teaching with the Father and Yeshua at its devotional centre. Every reader keeps their dignity, judgement and freedom to question.
Related witnesses and routes
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Learning in the Light
In Babylon, the Father’s light opens perspective, learning and a chosen next step. Your worth remains intact. Every person is sovereign, with dignity, freedom and room to grow.
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Passage and translation coverage ↗Read the selected passage study
1QM XVII:5–8 · edition route p. 340 · Scholarly quotation and edition reference checked
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1QM I:1 · exact quotation in Walsh 2019, note 14 · Opening quotation and edition route checked
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