Community rule
The Fellowship Rule is an ancient Jewish script in Hebrew found among the Dead Sea Scrolls .
Description of the handwriting
The community rule is only preserved in a single manuscript, Siglum 1QSa or 1Q28a. This includes two columns text, which originally belonged to a larger font matter what the " community usually contained" and "(rule of) blessings." Based on comparisons of the forms of writing , the manuscript is dated to the first quarter of the first century BC.
content
The community rule shows numerous similarities with the community rule. However, her focus is on the description of an eschatological feast and its order. It is noticeable that the community rule also speaks of women and children.
Text editions and translations
- Jacob Licht: The Rule Scroll. Jerusalem 1965. [Hebrew]
- Eduard Lohse (ed.): The texts from Qumran. Hebrew and German with masoretic punctuation, translation, introduction and notes. Darmstadt 2 1971, 45-51.286. ISBN 3-466-20067-9
literature
- Lawrence H. Schiffman: The Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Study of the Rule of the Congregation. Atlanta 1989.
- Lawrence H. Schiffman: Rule of the Congregation. In: Lawrence H. Schiffman; James C. VanderKam (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York 2000, 797-799.