This investigation into the formation of the Community Rule is the first to make full use of all the evidence of the Cave 4 fragments which have recently been made available to scholars.
The Serekh Texts discusses the central rule documents produced by a pious Jewish community of the Essenes that lived at Qumran by the Dead Sea at the turn of the era. The texts describe the life of a
How were Jewish texts produceed and transmitted in late antiquity? What role did scribal practices play in the shaping of bothe scriptural and interpretive traditions, which are---as the Scrolls show
Papers presented at the IOQS meeting in Ljubljana “Qumran Cave 1 Revisited: Reconsidering the Cave 1 Texts Sixty Years after Their Discovery,” on the two Isaiah scrolls, the Community Rule, the War Sc