Qumran community (the Yaḥad)
A tradition no longer extant within Essenes. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Qumran community (the Yaḥad) is recorded within Essenes and is no longer extant. Also written Yahad, Dead Sea Scrolls sect, Community of the Renewed Covenant.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: the Teacher of Righteousness (unnamed figure of the scrolls). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: known from the Dead Sea Scrolls (notably the Community Rule and the Damascus Document) and from the site of Khirbet Qumran. No founding year is recoverable; the community's own literature refers to an unnamed 'Teacher of Righteousness'. Placed under Essenes to reflect the majority identification, which is itself disputed.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Qumran community (the Yaḥad).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-qumran-community-the-yahad.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.