Dead Sea Scroll Stats
Sidebar to: Chief Scroll Editor Opens Up—An Interview with Emanuel Tov
Total number of scrolls:
About 900
Total number of intact scrolls:
About 12 (depending on what you consider intact)
Total number of fragmentary scrolls:
About 888
Date first scrolls found:
1947 or 1948
Date last scroll found:
1956
Number of chief scroll editors:
4
Names, dates and number of volumes published during term of each chief scroll editor:
Roland de Vaux, 1952–1975, 4 vols.
Pierre Benoit, 1975–1984, 2 vols.
John Strugnell, 1984–1990, 1 vol.
Emanuel Tov, 1990-present, 30 vols.
Number of scholars on original scroll publication team:
8 or 9
Number of Jews on original scroll publication team:
0
Number of scholars who published scrolls through 1986:
30
Number of scholars added to publication team by Strugnell:
18
Number of scholars added to publication team by Tov:
53
Total number of scholars who edited scrolls:
98
Total number of pages (excluding 3 volumes still in preparation):
11,594
Total number of plates of photographs (excluding 3 volumes in preparation):
1312
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