Dead Sea Scrolls remain incomplete

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Knowledge gleaned from the Dead Sea Scrolls has been incomplete—partly because the scrolls degraded with time, but also because... we lost a few of them.

Archaeologists Had Forgotten About Nine of the Dead Sea Scrolls

For the past 60 years, these Dead Sea Scrolls had just been sitting around in a storeroom

SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE|BY COLIN SCHULTZ