Dead Sea Scrolls

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Dead Sea scrolls - 15,000 fragments of about 850 scrolls from ancient Judaism. This book is the 90^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 76^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Dead Sea Scrolls” in English Wikipedia has 95.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 242 references and 39 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 6208^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3918^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 76^th most popular in books in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6477^th most popular in all topics.

The 4592^nd most popular in AI.

The 90^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 5358^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4861^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Dead Sea Scrolls” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 21 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Dead Sea Scrolls”, its content was written by 1217 registered users of English Wikipedia (3918^th place) and edited by 3685 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4592^nd place).

Dead Sea scrolls is on the 76^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 90^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 1488 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7991 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #361 in September 2011
• Global: #1221 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1730 in September 2011
• Global: #1105 in March 2021

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer		100
2	Arabic (ar) مخطوطات البحر الميت		100
3	English (en) Dead Sea Scrolls		95.1836
4	Indonesian (id) Naskah Laut Mati		92.5128
5	Hebrew (he) מגילות מדבר יהודה		75.8786
6	Slovak (sk) Rukopisy Mŕtveho mora		65.2606
7	Slovenian (sl) Kumranski rokopisi		62.3127
8	Dutch (nl) Dode Zee-rollen		54.4501
9	Czech (cs) Svitky od Mrtvého moře		53.4216
10	French (fr) Manuscrits de la mer Morte		50.2158

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dead Sea Scrolls		18 161 884
2	Japanese (ja) 死海文書		3 084 724
3	Spanish (es) Manuscritos del Mar Muerto		2 684 532
4	German (de) Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer		1 304 278
5	French (fr) Manuscrits de la mer Morte		1 289 653
6	Russian (ru) Кумранские рукописи		1 261 159
7	Portuguese (pt) Manuscritos do Mar Morto		1 181 592
8	Chinese (zh) 死海古卷		1 045 080
9	Italian (it) Manoscritti del Mar Morto		848 623
10	Polish (pl) Rękopisy z Qumran		588 756

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Dead Sea Scrolls		99 982
2	Japanese (ja) 死海文書		13 234
3	Spanish (es) Manuscritos del Mar Muerto		8 682
4	Russian (ru) Кумранские рукописи		7 265
5	German (de) Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer		6 487
6	French (fr) Manuscrits de la mer Morte		5 915
7	Italian (it) Manoscritti del Mar Morto		5 381
8	Chinese (zh) 死海古卷		5 256
9	Portuguese (pt) Manuscritos do Mar Morto		3 819
10	Dutch (nl) Dode Zee-rollen		3 418

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dead Sea Scrolls		1 217
2	German (de) Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer		307
3	French (fr) Manuscrits de la mer Morte		209
4	Hebrew (he) מגילות מדבר יהודה		209
5	Dutch (nl) Dode Zee-rollen		152
6	Italian (it) Manoscritti del Mar Morto		144
7	Spanish (es) Manuscritos del Mar Muerto		142
8	Russian (ru) Кумранские рукописи		120
9	Japanese (ja) 死海文書		94
10	Portuguese (pt) Manuscritos do Mar Morto		75

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Dead Sea Scrolls		6
2	German (de) Schriftrollen vom Toten Meer		5
3	Lithuanian (lt) Negyvosios jūros ritiniai		2
4	Russian (ru) Кумранские рукописи		2
5	Finnish (fi) Kuolleenmeren kääröt		1
6	Hebrew (he) מגילות מדבר יהודה		1
7	Italian (it) Manoscritti del Mar Morto		1
8	Serbian (sr) Свици са Мртвог мора		1
9	Turkish (tr) Ölü Deniz Yazmaları		1
10	Chinese (zh) 死海古卷		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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