LIST OF PLATES

1. A reconstructed Scroll jar from Cave One
2. Muhammad's Cave (One)
3. Kando and George
4. Caves in the Wady Murabba'at (One and Two)
5. Inside Cave One, Murabba'at
6. A Chalcolithic wooden adze handle, with leather thongs attached, from a Murabba'at cave (c. 4,000 B.C.)
7. A papyrus letter from Murabba'at, written by the leader of the Second Jewish Revolt (A.D. 132-135), Simon ben Kosebah (Kochebah)
8. Climbing to Cave Two
9. Wady Qumran, the Monastery, and the Dead Sea to the Jordan inlet, taken from the vicinity of Cave Six
10. Cave Three: home of the Copper Scroll
11. The Copper Scroll on view in the Palestine Archaeological Museum, before opening
12. The bottom edge of the larger of the copper strips
13. The title page of the Manual of Discipline
14. Cave Four
15. Caves Four and Five
16. Some members of the 'Scrollery' team: John Strugnell, the author, Father Skehan, Claus Hunzinger, and Father Milik
17. Frank Cross at work in the 'Scrollery' on some Fourth-Cave biblical fragments
18. Scroll fragments as they are received from the Bedouin
19. Joins in biblical fragments from the Fourth Cave
20. The 'Scrollery'
21. Part of a scroll of Samuel from the Fourth Cave: this piece is made up of twenty-seven fragments