(Zadokite Fragment "A"; also known as CDC, the Covenant of Damascus from Cairo)

Folio 1, Recto
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Description of the Fragment:

Classmark: T-S 10K6
Hebrew. 10th century Oriental square script.
8 leaves; paper; 22 x 18 cm; probably originally in codex form; holed and worn in parts; with some loss of text particularly on the last two leaves, but generally legible.

T-S 10K6 is one of two copies of the Damascus Document, the other (T-S 16.311) being somewhat later, and deriving (largely) from a different part of the text.

"The First Dead Sea Scroll"?

Bibliography, Editions and Translations

Broshi, Magen: The Damascus document reconsidered (Israel Exploration Society: Shrine of the Book, Israel Museum, 1992)

Davies, P. R.: The Damascus covenant: an interpretation of the "Damascus document" (Sheffield, 1983)

Ginzberg, L.: An Unknown Jewish Sect (E.T.: New York, 1976)

Kahle, Paul: The Cairo Genizah (Oxford: Blackwell, 1959)

Rabin, C.: The Zadokite documents, 1: the admonition, 2: the laws (2nd ed. Oxford, 1958)

Reif, Stefan: Article "Cairo Genizah", in Encyclopaedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford: OUP: forthcoming 1997) ed LH Schiffman and JC VanderKam

Rowley, H. H.: The Zadokite fragments and the Dead Sea scrolls (Oxford: Blackwell, 1952)

Schechter, S.: Documents of Jewish sectaries/ edited from Hebrew MSS. in the Cairo Genizah collection, now in the possession of the University Library, Cambridge (Cambridge: University Press, 1910) 2 v

Vermes, Geza: The Dead Sea Scrolls in EnglishLondon: Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1988.

Zeitlin, Solomon: The Zadokite fragments: facsimile of the manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah collection in the possession of the University Library, Cambridge, England (Philadelphia: Dropsie College, 1952)