The Rule of the Association and Related Texts

John J. Collins, Holmes Professor of Old Testament Emeritus, Yale University,James Nati, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Yale University. He has held Academic appointments at the University of Notre Dame, University of Chicago, and Yale, and has honorary Degrees from University College Dublin and the University of Zurich. he has been President of the Catholic Biblical Association and the Society of Biblical Literature. He has been editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature, Dead Sea Discoveries, Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements, and Anchor Yale Bible. He is member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has published widely on the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Apocalypticis.


James Nati, PhD (Yale, 2019) is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Santa Clara University Jesuit School of Theology. He is the author of Textual Criticism and the Ontology of Literature in Early Judaism: An Analysis of the Serekh ha-Yahad (Brill, 2022). His research focuses on the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, and on the Dead Sea Scrolls in particular.

List of Abbreviations1. Introduction2. Introductory Statement and Covenant Renewal (1QS 1:1-3:12)3. 1QS 3:13-4:26. The Instruction on the Two Spirits4. Rules of the Association (1QS 5:1-7:25)5. 1QS 8:1-9:11. An Elite Community6. 1QS 9:12-11:22. The Maskil7. 1QSa. The Rule of the Congregation8. 1QSb.The Scroll of Blessings (1QSb)Related Fragments from Caves 1, 4, and 59. Introduction and Bibliographic Note10. 1Q29a11. 4QSa (4Q255)12. 4QSb (4Q256)13. 4QSc (4Q257)14. 4QSd (4Q258)15. 4QSe (4Q259 & 4Q319)16. 4QSf (4Q260)17. 4QSg (4Q261)18. 4QSh (4Q262)19. 4QSi (4Q263)20. 4QSj21. 5Q1122. 11Q29Bibliography