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The most complete manuscript was found in Cave 1, and is given the document reference name 1QS (which stands for : "Cave 1 / '''Q'''umran / "'''S'''erekh" = 'rule'). Numerous other fragments of this document, containing variant readings, were found in caves 4 and 5 (4QSa-j, 5Q11, 5Q13). Two other documents, known as the The Rule Of The Congregation and The Rule Of The Blessing , are found on the same scroll as 1Qs, and were originally thought to be part of the Community Rule, but are now considered separate texts that act as appendices. There is some debate whether the community for which it legislates and describes is Utopian or real and, if real, whether it refers to a community that may have been resident at the adjacent settlement of Qumran. The current majority opinion is that the document describes, together with the rest of the scrolls, the theology of a Jewish Essene Sect resident at Qumran. KEY THEOLOGICAL THEMES:
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