Using the world's most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, now accessible to the public for the first time. It is attributed to the biblical Baruch and so is associated with the Old Testament, but not regarded as scripture by Jews or by most Christian groups. The Rules. It is included in some editions of the Peshitta, and is part of … Using the world's most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, now accessible to the public for the first time. Since 2 Baruch is not part of the Western biblical canons, it is typically not covered by the standard introductions to, and textbooks on, the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. The Book of Giants is an antediluvian (pre-Flood) narrative that was received primarily in Manichaean literature and known at Turfan. The Community Rule The Community Rule scroll was discovered in Cave 1 at Qumran and was published in 1951 by M. Burrows. While nearly every location surrounding the Dead Sea has some remarkable historical significance, most pale in comparison with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls between 1947-1956 in caves within what is now Qumran National Park. The Dead Sea Scrolls. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity. (“The Manual of Discipline” (“The Dead Sea Scrolls of St Mark’s Monastery”) II, New Haven, M. Burrows) Ten other manuscript fragments of The Community Rule were discovered in Cave 4. However, the earliest known traditions for the book originate in Aramaic copies of a Book of Giants among the Dead Sea Scrolls. 2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphical text thought to have been written in the late 1st century AD or early 2nd century AD, after the destruction of the Temple in AD 70. Introductions to 2 Baruch are found in the handbooks on Jewish apocalyptic literature as well as in the introductions to early Jewish literature in general. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity.