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Manual of Discipline

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Manual of Discipline

 or Rule of the Community

Major document produced by the Essene community of Jews. The manual, written on scrolls found in 1947 in caves at Qumran (see Dead Sea Scrolls), explains the sect's religious and moral ideals and describes its admission ceremony, mystical doctrines, and organizational and disciplinary statutes.



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It included several works: the Manual of Discipline or Community Rule (1QS),[2] a set of regulations for the life of the group; the Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH), a series of poems thanking God for the life of a sectarian; commentaries on biblical prophets, such as Pesher Habakkuk (1QpHab); as well as biblical texts themselves, such as the Isaiah scrolls.
 
 
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