Do the Dead Sea Scrolls contain Deuterocanonicals?

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Do the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the seven Deuterocanonicals?

(Please give the link to the internet source that says so, if possible)
 
There are bits and pieces of 6 of the 7 Deuterocanonicals, written in Hebrew, found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Sorry, I can’t find the link.

The fact that they were written in Hebrew is so very important, for St. Jerome didn’t think they were ever written in Hebrew and that’s one of the main reasons why he didn’t feel they were Scriptural.
 
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Essenes, a conservative religious sect that lived ~200 BC, has shed new light on Hebrew Scripture. Every book of the Old Testament was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls except for the Book of Esther. It is important to note that the Dead Sea Scrolls included 3 books written in Hebrew which had been considered part of the Apocrypha - Tobias (or Tobit), Sirach, and the Letter of Jeremiah, as well as Psalm 151 of David. Also discovered were two books of the pseudepigrapha, the Books of Enoch and Jubilees, both of which are also found in the Old Testament of the Eastern Orthodox Church of Ethiopia.
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biblescripture.net/Canon.html

home.flash.net/~hoselton/deadsea/caves.htm
 
Here is a helpful video series that gives the history of how the Christian bible was formed. I don’t remember if the dead sea scrolls were mentioned but it is still worth watching.
 
The other two being in the Ethopian Orthodox canon I found out. Good find.
 
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