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The Qumran scrolls were written at different times and in different places in ancient Israel and it is therefore not expected that they would be of one kind. Indeed, there are many internal differences between the Qumran scrolls, but there are also many similarities between them, as would be expected for scrolls written in roughly the same period between the third century B.C.E. and the first century C.E. This study focuses on the special scribal characteristics of the corpus of Qumran scrolls as opposed to those from other sites in the Judean Desert and those dating from other periods.