Description: This volume presents the long-awaited edition of the Cave 4 manuscripts of Serekh Ha-Yahad or The Rule of the Community, in which the Essenes detailed the guidelines for membership in their community. It is extremely important for understanding the nature, practice, and ideology of the Qumran covenanters.
Review Quotes: "This volume represents well the high level of scholarly achievement and the clarity of presentation that has become typical of the DJD series. The authors and the series editor, E. Tov, are to be congratulated for keeping these absolutely fundamental publications at so high a level."-- Journal of Near Eastern Studies