Download or read book The Rule of the Association and Related Texts written by John J Collins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series provides commentaries on the most important of the non-biblical texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls. This volume considers the Serek Texts, or the Rule of the Community, which are concerned with the internal organization of the Qumran community, usually identified as the Essenes.