LanguageHebrew
Earliest Date~30 BC (Late 1st Century BC – Early 1st Century AD)
Current LocationRockefeller Museum, Jerusalem
Found LocationQumran, Cave 4
Scribal Context & DetailsAn ancient Hebrew scroll of the Book of Numbers discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It is highly famous among scholars for its rare scribal feature where several lines, including parts of the Balaam story, are written in red ink rather than standard black carbon ink.
