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More manuscripts are being discovered and translated all the time. There are at least 24,000 manuscripts for the New Testament in all, including at least 8,000 in the Latin Vulgate and 1,000 in Syrian, Coptic, Armenian, Gothic, and Ethiopic, with 99.5% internal consistency. There are 127 papyri, 3 Majuscule and Miniscule MSS, and 2436 Lectionary MSS that make up the at least 5,762 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament (current as of 2008). The fifth site at Masada contained a copy of Ecclesiastes (75 B.C.) and fragments of Genesis, Leviticus, and Psalms. The fourth site, 8.5 miles north of Jericho, contained legal documents from Samarians massacred by soldiers of Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. The third site south of 'En Gedi included a Greek translation of the Minor Prophets from the 1st Century A.D. 132-135) and included a well-preserved scroll of the Minor Prophets. The second site, Wadi Al-Murabba'at - 11 miles south of Qumran, contained documents from army fugitives in the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome (A.D. The first, at Qumran, consisted of 11 caves with over 15,000 fragments (according to the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation there are over 100,000 fragments ) from 800 or 900 original manuscripts, typically dating from the 3rd to 1st centuries B.C. There were actually five sites in all discovered contributing Dead Sea Scrolls. The first 7 scrolls remain in the property of the Israel Museum, while most of the fragments are owned by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

The final cave, Cave 11, was discovered in 1956. The most manuscript fragments were found in Cave 4, over 15,000. These scrolls have largely backed up the Masoretic Text, with rare exception. or older, like the Great Isaiah Scroll which was carbon-dated as old as 335 B.C. to 68 A.D., drastically increased our assurance that the Old Testament we have today has been faithfully transmitted through the centuries. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, most of which dated from 200 B.C. From 1949-1954, additional fragments of more than 950 different scrolls were found in 10 nearby caves by Bedouins and a joint archaeological expedition led by Professor Father Roland de Vaux for the École Biblique et Archéologique Française and the Rockefeller Museum. Three of these scrolls were then purchased by archaeologist Eliezer Lipa Sukenik for the Hebrew University and others were bought by Mar Athanasius Samuel for the Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem. Bedouin of the Ta'amra tribe discovered 7 scrolls in a cave now named "Cave 1" Khirbet Qumran on the Northwest shore of the Dead Sea. In 1947, in the midst of the War for the Independence of the Republic of Israel, came the discovery, at Qumran, of the first 7 Dead Sea scrolls by a Bedouin shepherd boy looking for his straying goat. & Tigchelaar, E.J.C., " The Dea Sea Scrolls Study Edition, Vol. * Papyrology Websites, Oxyrhynchus Online * Israel Museum, The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls * John Rylands University Library, Image Collections, Bible Greek or Hebrew Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship * Stephen Rives, Old Testament Manuscripts and 18 Tiqqune Sepherim and Looking Under the Hood: Origins of the Bible Slideshow Minor Prophets (all books) & fragments of Genesis, Deuteronomy, and Isaiah. The following is a list of major Old Testament manuscripts older than 200 A.D.: Old Testament List of Old Testament manuscripts