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Schiffman, The Eschatological Community, p. 67.

Translation of Lawrence Schiffman, The Eschatological Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Study of the Rule of the Congregation, SBL Monograph series 38 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989), pp. 53–55.

There is a dittography (unintentional repetition of letters or words while copying) in lines 5–6.

Josephus (The Jewish War 2.122) and Pliny the Elder (Natural History 5.15) also refer to the community property of the Essenes.

W.A. Criswell, “The Command to Be Filled with the Spirit,” The Holy Spirit in Today’s World (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1966), pp. 132–166.

The development of the Samaritan script is thoroughly discussed by James D. Purvis in The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Origin of the Samaritan sect (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1968).