who has a sore throat should be given medicine even on the Sabbath. Later rabbinic tradition refers to this legal principle as piqquaḥ nefesh: the legal-religious duty to save life.47 Nonetheless, Qumranic legal materials suggest that others believed that the Sabbath outweighed human life—something that would be consonant with the prohibition of war on the Sabbath found in Jubilees and 4Q264. For instance, the Damascus Document states, And any living person who falls into a place of water or a place