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300 QUMRAN COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND TERMINOLOGY<br />

A comparison between <strong>the</strong> different copies of <strong>the</strong> same document<br />

clearly indicates that <strong>the</strong> organizational terms were highly significant for<br />

<strong>the</strong> self-underst<strong>and</strong>ing of <strong>the</strong> community. <strong>The</strong>re are variants where a<br />

short terminus technicus has been replaced by a longer phrase loaded with<br />

<strong>the</strong>ological terminology, <strong>and</strong> sometimes <strong>the</strong>ologically based organizational<br />

terms have been secondarily inserted into sentences which originally<br />

lacked <strong>the</strong>m.

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