hold all things in common” (tois philois panta koina). The proverb itself is widely distributed (see, e.g., Plato, Republic 449C; Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics 1168B; Politics 1263A; Plutarch, The Dialogue on Love 21 [Mor. 767E]; Philo, On Abraham, 235), and was a feature of utopian visions of society. The community of possessions was not an ideal within Rabbinic Judaism (see e.g., Pirke Aboth 5:10), but at Qumran there was a very strict community of possessions (1QS 5:1–3, 14–16, 20; 6:17–22, 24–25;