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Community Rule Scroll (1QS / Serekh Hayahad)

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MANUSCRIPTMANUSCRIPT_1QS

Evidence state: documented fact

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

Release Introduced
v50
Curation State
CURATED_CATALOG_ENTITY
Short Title
1QS
Evidence Classification
documented fact
Date Range
{
    "start_bce": 100,
    "end_bce": 75,
    "label": "ca. 100–75 BCE",
    "certainty": "approximate manuscript dating retained from Israel Museum exhibition material"
}
Languages
[
    "Hebrew"
]
Tradition Contexts
[
    "JEWISH_CONTEXT"
]
Identifiers
[
    {
        "scheme": "Qumran manuscript",
        "value": "1QS"
    }
]
Repository Note
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.
Source Ids
[
    "SRC_IMJ_DSS_COMMUNITY_RULE"
]
Rights
{
    "image_state": "LINK_ONLY",
    "transcription_state": "LINK_ONLY_PENDING_RIGHTS_REVIEW",
    "local_host_state": "RIGHTS_REVIEW_REQUIRED"
}
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.