Community Rule recensional complex behind 1QS and 4Q255-264
A recensional/stemmatic textual complex inferred from 1QS and Cave 4 Serekh ha-Yahad witnesses, especially 4Q255-264.
L4 Draft articles and reviews
Community Rule recensional complex behind 1QS and 4Q255-264 v1 ยท Draft
A textual-recensional problem, not a community overview.
Epistemic status
This article describes an entity that is not directly attested as one complete surviving work: the Community Rule recensional complex behind 1QS and 4Q255-264. The manuscript witnesses and catalog records are real; the Inferpedia claim concerns the bounded source-work or textual object inferred from fragmentary evidence.
Summary
Qumran-Digital presents 1QS with links to Cave 4 parallels, and 4Q255 as a separate transcription. OUP treats 1QS and 4QSa-j within a recent Rule of the Association corpus.
What is being inferred
The inferred entity is the recensional/stemmatic complex behind the Community Rule witnesses, not a single clean original text.
What is attested
The attested surfaces are 1QS, 4Q255, IAA Cave 1 catalog control, and OUP bibliographic/contents control for related fragments.
Why infer this entity
The same rule tradition is visible across a long Cave 1 witness and multiple Cave 4 witnesses; that makes the recensional complex itself a navigable Inferpedia object.
Evidence ledger
- IAA controls the Cave 1 manuscript grouping as 1Q Multiple Compositions.
- Qumran-Digital provides the 1QS transcription.
- The 1QS page links to 4Q255 parallels.
- Qumran-Digital provides the 4Q255 transcription.
- OUP lists 1QS and 4QSa-j/4Q255-264 as related textual evidence.
Counterarguments
The scope is broad and must not absorb the b046 1QSa/1QSb drafts or become a general Qumran community page.
Confidence scores
Direct attestation 72; existence warrant 79; specificity 68; reconstruction dependence 65; counterevidence 32.
What would change the score
Full commentary could split the complex into several recensions; direct edition access to all Cave 4 fragments would strengthen or narrow the claim.
Why this candidate exists
Codex-native Judaism category traversal selected a Dead Sea Scrolls/Qumran textual route with catalog, transcription, and scholarly source control.
L3 Evidence packet
IAA, 1Q Multiple Compositions - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Archival catalog 78
Access level: Full text
Locator: IAA page title
Quote: "1Q Multiple Compositions"
Paraphrase: IAA controls the Cave 1 manuscript grouping that includes the Community Rule-related compositions.
Reliability: 78 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: 1qs
Qumran-Digital transcription, 1QS - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Peer-reviewed index 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Qumran-Digital title
Quote: "1QS (transcription)"
Paraphrase: Qumran-Digital controls 1QS as a transcribed witness.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 86
Cluster: 1qs
Qumran-Digital transcription, 1QS - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Peer-reviewed index 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Qumran-Digital navigation
Quote: "columns 1 through 11"
Paraphrase: The 1QS transcription supplies a long, column-structured witness.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 78
Cluster: 1qs
Qumran-Digital transcription, 1QS - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Peer-reviewed index 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Qumran-Digital cross-references
Quote: "4Q255 frg. 1"
Paraphrase: The 1QS page links directly to Cave 4 Serekh parallels.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 86
Cluster: community-parallels
Qumran-Digital transcription, 4Q255 - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Primary trace
Source authority: Peer-reviewed index 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Qumran-Digital title
Quote: "4Q255 (transcription)"
Paraphrase: Qumran-Digital controls 4Q255 as a transcribed Cave 4 witness.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 82
Cluster: 4q255
Qumran-Digital transcription, 4Q255 - Direct attestation
Warrant role: Supporting evidence
Source authority: Peer-reviewed index 72
Access level: Full text
Locator: Qumran-Digital navigation
Quote: "frg. A"
Paraphrase: The page supplies multiple fragment units for 4Q255.
Reliability: 72 - Relevance: 74
Cluster: 4q255
Collins and Nati, The Rule of the Association and Related Texts - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Bibliographic control
Source authority: Scholarly book 78
Access level: Abstract only
Locator: Oxford book title
Quote: "The Rule of the Association and Related Texts"
Paraphrase: OUP gives recent scholarly source control for the Rule of the Association and related fragments.
Reliability: 78 - Relevance: 84
Cluster: community-scholarship
Collins and Nati, The Rule of the Association and Related Texts - Indirect reference
Warrant role: Bibliographic control
Source authority: Scholarly book 78
Access level: Abstract only
Locator: Oxford contents
Quote: "4QSa (4Q255)"
Paraphrase: The contents explicitly include the Cave 4 4QSa-j witnesses.
Reliability: 78 - Relevance: 84
Cluster: community-scholarship
Offline existing-inferon judge ledger control source - Network gap
Warrant role: Noetic interpretation
Source authority: Noetic model prior 50
Access level: No external text
Locator: existing_inferon_judge_promote:inferon:530
Paraphrase: Offline judge treated existing inferon 530 (source_dependence) as support for Community Rule recensional complex behind 1QS and 4Q255-264. Evidence strength: source-backed prior reading already isolated a bounded missing or reconstructed entity; suitable for L2 only. The accountable path is EvidencePath 1748.
Reliability: 79 - Relevance: 66
Cluster: existing_inferon_judge_promote:c0d5b7005b00280fae923233ecbf7247
Arguments
Existing inferon 530 supports an L2 inferred candidate for Community Rule recensional complex behind 1QS and 4Q255-264; this remains below publication and is not direct attestation.
AI-assessed L2 Quotient triage: AI judge warrant assessment for L2 Quotient triage; existing AI-created evidence remains below publication.
Community Rule recensional complex warrants a draft article as a textual-witness and recension problem spanning 1QS and Cave 4 Serekh witnesses.
The source controls are sufficient for a draft article; the full reconstruction remains fragmentary and source-edition dependent.