One of the scrolls that was found by the Bedouin in Cave 1 and purchased in November 1947 by Eleazar Sukenik for the Hebrew University was a collection of approximately thirty poems similar to the biblical psalms. Since the majority of them begin with the phrase “I thank you, Lord” (אודכה אדוני), Sukenik designated this “The Thanksgiving Scroll” (מגילת ההודיות), and the poems themselves came to be called “Hodayot” (in English, Thanksgiving Psalms or Thanksgiving Hymns). The photos and a transcription of this scroll, designated 1QH^a, were published in The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University.¹ When archaeologists excavated...