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Esther is the only book of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) that is not represented among the Dead Sea scrolls.They also include four of the deuterocanonical or "Apocrypha" books included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles.

The list of books and the number of texts found:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls#Biblical_books_found

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