Evidence Entity

Community Rule Scroll (1QS / Serekh Hayahad)

Major Qumran sectarian rule text governing communal admission, discipline, covenantal life, and related beliefs. Cataloged as a Jewish manuscript witness, not as biblical Scripture.

ManuscriptMANUSCRIPT_1QS

Dateca. 100–75 BCEapproximate manuscript dating retained from Israel Museum exhibition material

LanguageHebrew

Evidence classificationdocumented fact

Research links0cataloged only; passage/word linking pending curation

Jewish context

Identifiers

Qumran manuscript1QS

Repository / holdings

Shrine of the Book / Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Contents / scope

Sectarian/community rule text. Related Cave 4/5 copies are separate manuscripts and are not collapsed into this entity.

Evidence boundary: 1QS is direct evidence for one Second-Temple Jewish/Qumran community's rules and language. It is not automatically representative of all Judaism and does not override biblical wording.