1QIsa^b

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1QIsa^b is a fragmentary copy of the Book of Isaiah found at Qumran Cave 1 by Bedouin from the Ta'amireh tribe in 1947.^[1] It was discovered along with and grouped and sold together with two other Dead Sea Scrolls, the Thanksgiving Hymn and the War Scroll.^[1] Seven fragments of 1QIsa^b are also classified as 1Q8.^[2]

Eleazar Sukenik purchased the scroll from an antiquities dealer in Bethlehem named Faidi Salahi, who had purchased the scroll from the Bedouin, on 21 December 1947.^[3] Much of the scroll is dark and blackened, preserved in multiple fragments, and in four major sheets that contain the upper section of the last third of the book.^[3] Paleography dates the scroll to the late Hasmonaean or early Herodian period in the first century BCE.^[3]

The manuscript includes these verses.^[2]