Texts and Manuscripts
The oldest surviving manuscripts of Isaiah are two scrolls found among the Dead Sea Scrolls: dating from about a century before the time of Jesus, they are substantially identical with the Masoretic version which forms the basis of most modern English-language versions of the book. (Isaiah was the most popular prophet among the Dead Sea collection: 21 copies of the scroll were found in Qumran.)
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