Community Rule (1QS)

2 texts in Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha

Two Angels Rule the World Until the End

1QS 3:13-4:26

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...

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The Covenant Ceremony of the Dead Sea Sect

1QS 1:1-3:12

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...

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