However, as I understand it, there are literally thousands of fragments and much work and time is necessary to translate them. Where they all are, I don't know.
The last books that I read on the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls, were of the opinion that the scrolls were hidden at Qumran as the people fled Jerusalem, not that they were necessarily written there. The sections that have been studied are copies of the bible 1000 years older than any previous copies, and amazingly, they are the same as what we have today.
The Isaiah prophecy of a Messiah is preserved, as well as some chapters of Habbakuk. Also, fragments of every Biblical book except Esther have been found, as well as many other non-Biblical texts.
Probably most interesting, for those who are New Testament scholars, it appears that the community at Qumran was extraordinarily interested in things of the last days, as well as in the coming of the prophesied Messiah, whose kingdom they foresaw as drawing close to earth, which is exactly what Jesus claimed.
I understand that most of the translation work is done. The remaining work is to match fragment xyz to Biblical text abc or to Talmudic commentary 123 -- or is this piece of parchment something new?
The current theory, as I understand it, is the Essenes copied a minor portion by themselves, maybe 10-25%, but the rest were scripts written outside the community. One conjecture is that they believed they were already in the "end-times" and had been copying and burying scrolls for years The 66-72 Jewish revolt may have forced them to speed it up and accept outside texts.
... Also, fragments of every Biblical book except Esther have been found, as well as many other non-Biblical texts.
The wining and dining and seducing the King like in Esther probably wouldn't have appealed to them. But the Jews didn't have a "accepted" canon back then.
... as well as in the coming of the prophesied Messiah, whose kingdom they foresaw as drawing close to earth, which is exactly what Jesus claimed.
Orthodox Jews were expecting a strong triumphant King that would redeem the Jewish nation en masse. Jesus was clearly not the Messiah as the Jews understood him to be.