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Between 1947 and 1956 a total of 972 ancient documents were discovered in 11 different caves near Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea (~13 miles from Jerusalem).[1]  Approximately 25% of the texts contain Biblical texts.  The rest were apocryphal texts (Tobit, Enoch, Jubilees, etc), or texts peculiar to the community that copied them (Community Rule, War Scroll, etc.).  Every book of the Hebrew Bible, except Esther and Nehemiah[2], is among them. 

The manuscripts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, and are dated between 250 BC and AD 70.

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