The Never-ending Importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls One of the recently published Dead Sea Scroll documents is known as the "Register of Rebukes." (Its scientific designation is 4Q477.) Only parts of eleven lines of one of this document's columns have survived. However, even these few words and parts of words are enough to see that the document, or a portion of it, was a list of the sect's members who were rebuked because they had violated community laws. The three individuals mentioned in the document are the only members of the Dead Sea sect that we know by name!
Jerusalem School member Esther Eshel of the Hebrew University has published a preliminary edition of the text in an article titled, "4Q477: The Rebukes by the Overseer," Journal of Jewish Studies 45.1 (1994): 111-122. Here is Geza Vermes' translation (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English [Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1997], 237-238):
...who...[wh]o acted wickedly...the Congregation...Yohanan son of Ar...[they rebuked because] he was short-tempered...with him...the iniquity with him and also the spirit of pride was with [him]...[blank] They rebuked Hananiah Notos because he...[to dis]turb the spirit of the Communi[ty...and] also to mingle the ...they rebu[k]ed because evil...was with him and also because he was not...and also because he loved
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