parts of the manuscript were found by an expedition of the hebrew university of jerusalem in the early 1960s in cave no. 8 in nahal hever (judean desert) named "cave of horror". other fragments had been purchased a decade earlier from bedouins. for those the siglum se2grxii was used when they were acquired by the palestine archaeological museum (today is rockefeller museum). emanuel tov wrote that "these small fragments were published by b. lifshitz, "the greek documents from th cave of horror," iej 12 (1962) 201-7 as well as in a hebrew version."