... of the Dead Sea Scrolls, primary material from the period of the Second Temple was made available. Recognition of the centrality of the law to the life and consciousness of the Qumran sectarians came with the publication of the Temple Scroll in 1977. Since that time, a goodly number of halakhic compositions...

...In the wake of the Maccabean revolt, the literature from the land of Israel takes a halakic turn, which is evident in Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. While the Law was the basis of common Judaism, it was also the basis of sectarian division. 1 Maccabees Josephus Otto Eckart...

... the original size of any given composition or the right order of its remaining fragments. This chapter describes the writing style of two compositions empirically. These two main literary genres are represented by the Temple Scroll, on the one hand, and by the legal part of the Damascus Document, on the other...