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The Temple Scroll is the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls, surviving in a manuscript approximately eight metres long that was recovered from Cave 11 near Qumran. Written in Hebrew on thin animal skin, it presents laws concerning ritual purity, sacrifices, festivals, kingship, and an idealized Temple...
The Community Rule is an ancient Jewish sectarian text preserved among the Dead Sea Scrolls and commonly identified by the manuscript designation 1QS. Found in Cave 1 near Qumran, it is also known as the Rule of the Community or Manual of Discipline. Its Hebrew text sets out admission procedures, co...
The War Scroll is one of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Cave 1 near Qumran and is conventionally identified as 1QM. Written in Hebrew, it presents an apocalyptic war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, organized as a conflict lasting forty years. The text combines eschatological...
