The Rule of the Association and Related Texts

This is a major achievement: the field has waited for proper commentary series for a while. Especially great is to see 1QSa and 1QSb taken into account as part of the same manuscript. * Jutta Jokiranta, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Cognate Studies, University of Helsinki *Indispensable and welcome contribution. * Daniel M. Gurtner, Religious Studies Review *

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 theStudy 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, andApocalypticis.

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.