Quoting from Wikipedia:

1) What are Dead Sea scrolls?
"The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 BCE, and preserve evidence of considerable diversity of belief and practice within late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus. These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE to 70 CE. The scrolls are most commonly identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, but recent scholarship has challenged their association with the scrolls."

2)List the books discover and brief description of their content:
"While many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are small fragments of Biblical, apocryphal, or sectarian manuscripts, some of the scrolls have come to be well known and influential to Second Temple Judaism. The following is a brief list of some of the more widely known Dead Sea Scrolls:

* 1QIsaa (a copy of the book of "Isaiah")
* 1QIsab (a second copy of the book of "Isaiah")
* 1QS ("Community Rule") cf. 4QSa-j = 4Q255-64, 5Q11
* 1QpHab ("Pesher on Habakkuk")
* 1QM ("War Scroll") cf. 4Q491, 4Q493; 11Q14?
* 1QH ("Thanksgiving Hymns")
* 1QapGen ("Genesis Apocryphon")
* CD ("Damascus Document") cf. 4QDa/g = 4Q266/272, 4QDa/e = 4Q266/270, 5Q12, 6Q15, 4Q265-73
* 1QSa ("Rule of the Congregation")
* 1QSb ("Rule of the Blessing") = 1Q28b
* 1Q14 ("Pesher on Micah")
* 2Q18 ("Sirach" or "Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira" or "Ecclesiasticus")
* 3Q7 ("Testament of Judah") = 4Q484, 4Q538
* 3Q15 ("Copper Scroll")
* 4QCantb ("Pesher on Canticles or "Pesher on the Song of Songs) = 4Q107
* 4QCantc ("Pesher on Canticles or "Pesher on the Song of Songs) = 4Q108
* 4Q112 ("Daniel")
* 4Q123 ("Rewritten Joshua")
* 4Q127 ("Rewritten Exodus")
* 4Q128-148 (various tefillin)
* 4Q156 ("Targum of Leviticus")
* 4Q157 ("Targum of Job") = 4QtgJob
* 4Q158, 364-367 ("Rewritten Pentateuch")
* 4Q161-164 ("Pesher on Isaiah")
* 4Q166-167 ("Pesher on Hosea")
* 4Q169 ("Pesher on Nahum")
* 4Q174 ("Florilegium" or "Midrash on the Last Days")
* 4Q175 ("Messianic Anthology" or "Testimonia")
* 4Q179 ("Lamentations") cf. 4Q501
* 4Q196-200 ("Tobit")
* 4Q213-214 ("Aramaic Levi" or "Testament of Levi")
* 4Q215 ("Testament of Naphtali")
* 4QCanta ("Pesher on Canticles or "Pesher on the Song of Songs") = 4Q240
* 4Q252 ("Pesher on Genesis")
* 4Q285 ("Rule of War") cf. 11Q14
* 4Q434 ("Barkhi Napshi - Apocryphal Psalms") (15 fragments likely hymns of thanksgiving, praising God for his power and expressing thanks )
* 4QMMT ("Miqsat Ma'ase Ha-Torah" or "MMT" or "Some Precepts of the Law" or the "Halakhic Letter") cf. 4Q394-399
* 4Q400-407 ("Songs of Sabbath Sacrifice" or the "Angelic Liturgy") cf. 11Q5-6
* 4Q448 ("Hymn to King Jonathan")
* 4Q521 ("Messianic Apocalypse")
* 4Q539 ("Testament of Joseph")
* 4Q554-5 ("New Jerusalem") cf. 1Q32, 2Q24, 5Q15, 11Q18
* 7Q2 ("Letter of Jeremiah") = Baruch 6
* 11QPsa ("Apocryphal Psalms") = 11Q5
* 11QtgJob ("Targum of Job") = 11Q10
* 11QMelch ("Heavenly Prince Melchizedek") = 11Q13
* 11QSM ("Sefer Ha-Milhamah" or "Book Of War") = 11Q14. cf. 1QM?
* 11QT ("Temple Scroll") = 11Q19"

**OMG! There's a lot of it!
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scroll

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