Longest & one of the most complete scrolls found at Qumran.  It presents an idealized description of (a) a Temple with courts as large as the city of Jerusalem from which all gentiles & the impure are excluded & (b) a sacrificial cult using a solar calendar (like that in Jubilees & 1 Enoch). While not sectarian, the text is presented as a direct revelation (to Moses?) independent of the Torah. Recent scholars regard it as a pre-Maccabean composition by Levites who rejected the Zadokite high priests' interpretation of Torah.

Other resources on line:

• The Temple Scroll - Brief introduction with an exquisite enlargeable digital image of the whole unrolled scroll [The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls].

• The Temple Scroll & the Halakhic Pseudepigrapha of the 2nd Temple Period - Lawrence Schiffman reviews scholarly debate over the genre of the scroll & concludes that it is unique (posted by Orion Center at Hebrew U).

• The Crucifixion of Jesus & the Temple Scroll - Jim West reviews Otto Betz's thesis that the temple scroll shows that Jews crucified sabbath offenders [Quartz Hill School of Theology].