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Fragments of a Greek Leviticus scroll from Qumran Cave 4 preserve portions of chapters 1–5 and write the divine name as the Greek letters IAO rather than Kyrios.
A late third-century BC parchment preserves consecutive portions of Exodus and Leviticus and is among the earliest substantial biblical manuscripts from Qumran.
Fragments cataloged together as 4Q24 preserve portions of Leviticus, while recent handwriting analysis argues that the group may represent two separate scrolls.
A palm-sized limestone tablet from Gezer arranges an agricultural year into short lines about gathering, sowing, tending, and harvest, preserving early alphabetic writing and rural vocabulary while leaving its language, date, and purpose open to debate.
Joined clay fragments from Nippur preserve a Sumerian law collection of King Lipit-Ishtar, pairing a royal justice prologue with cases on households, inheritance, property, slavery, and compensation.
The longest Qumran scroll rewrites Torah in the divine first person to prescribe an ideal temple, concentric courts, festivals, purity zones, civil laws, and a law for the king.