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This essential two-volume compilation is a practical reference tool to facilitate access to the Qumran collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It contains newly edited English translations of the nonbiblical scrolls, arranged by serial number from Cave 1 to Cave 11. In addition, it offers a summary of the contents of the biblical scrolls from Qumran. Each Q-number is provided with a heading that...

26 for the community council, or for a convocation of war, they shall sanctify themselves during three days, so that every one who comes 27 is pre[pared for the cou]ncil. These are the men who are to be summoned to the community council from … Blank: all 28 the wi[se men] of the congregation, the intelligent and those learned in perfect behaviour and the men of valour, together with 29 [the chiefs of the tri]bes and all their judges, their officials, the chiefs of thousands, the chiefs of [hundreds,]
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