2 passagesc. 1st century BCEHebrew / Aramaic / GreekOriginal Adaptation
Individual passages from Community Rule (1QS), indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
The opening columns of the Community Rule describe a yearly covenant renewal ceremony that reads like a cross between a monastic initiation and an ancient Israelite oath of allegia...
The Community Rule (Serekh HaYachad, סרך היחד), one of the first seven scrolls discovered in Cave 1 in 1947, contains what may be the most startling theological statement in all of...