QDR is a reader for the Dead Sea Scrolls. The text is displayed in Hebrew, fragment by fragment and line by line, with word-level morphological analysis available on hover.
The Scrolls
Biblical scrolls — 266 scrolls from Qumran that overlap with the Hebrew Bible, from a complete Isaiah scroll (1QIsaᵃ) to single-verse fragments. They are organized by cave, by scroll, and by canonical book.
Non-biblical scrolls — the sectarian, liturgical, and wisdom texts of the Qumran community: the Rule of the Community (1QS), Damascus Document (CD), Hodayot (1QH), War Scroll (1QM), pesharim, and more.
Morphological Analysis
Hovering a word opens a panel showing the root, part of speech, and full morphological parse — verb stem, aspect, conjugation, gender, number, person, state — decoded from Martin Abegg's transcriptions. Click to keep the panel open.
Lexical definitions are drawn from three sources in order: THB definitions, Strong's Hebrew concordance, and Brown-Driver-Briggs. The panel identifies which source is being quoted.
Scripts
QDR renders all three scripts found in the scrolls: Scroll Hebrew (the 4Q416jan font, approximating the Qumran scribal hand), Paleo-Hebrew (used in some scrolls, particularly for the divine name), and Modern Square Hebrew (Noto Sans Hebrew). In Scroll mode, the Tetragrammaton is rendered in paleo script.
Data Source
Text and morphological data are from the ETCBC Dead Sea Scrolls corpus (Naaijer & Roorda, 2019), based on Martin Abegg's transcriptions. The corpus covers 2,308 biblical fragments across 266 scrolls and the full non-biblical collection. Full attribution on the License page.
About the Author
QDR was built by Michael Muzar.