Dead Sea Scrolls
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The Dead Sea Scrolls preserve a remarkable library from Qumran: rules for community life, hymns and thanksgiving psalms, biblical commentaries, apocryphal works, and legal texts. This page provides a clean overview and access to a full transcript via PDF for local reading.
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Contents (overview)
- Rule of the Community (1QS, Cave 1; copies in Caves 4–5)
- Damascus Document (CD; Genizah and Qumran Cave 4)
- Thanksgiving Hymns (Hodayot)
- War Scroll (Milhama)
- Temple Scroll
- Pesharim (Commentaries on Habakkuk, Isaiah, etc.)
- Community Regulations and Priestly Courses