See Benedikt Eckhardt, “ ‘Those Who Freely Volunteer’: The Yahad in the Context of Hellenistic Group Formation,” in T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. G. J. Brooke and C. Hempel (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, forthcoming) for an excellent summary of past work along these lines, along with the problems involved therein. Yonder M. Gillihan, Civic Ideology, Organization and Law in the Rule Scrolls: A Comparative Study of the Covenanters’ Sect and contemporary Voluntary Associations in Political Context, stdj 97 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 37-64, also provides overviews of some of the more influential studies.

See Benedikt Eckhardt, “ ‘Those Who Freely Volunteer’: The Yahad in the Context of Hellenistic Group Formation,” in T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. G. J. Brooke and C. Hempel (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, forthcoming) for an excellent summary of past work along these lines, along with the problems involved therein. Yonder M. Gillihan, Civic Ideology, Organization and Law in the Rule Scrolls: A Comparative Study of the Covenanters’ Sect and contemporary Voluntary Associations in Political Context, stdj 97 (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 37-64, also provides overviews of some of the more influential studies.)| false
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John J. Collins and Timothy H. Lim, “Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. J. J. Collins and T. H. Lim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 1-18 give a good summary of the current state of research on many of these major problems.

John J. Collins and Timothy H. Lim, “Introduction: Current Issues in Dead Sea Scrolls Research,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls, ed. J. J. Collins and T. H. Lim (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 1-18 give a good summary of the current state of research on many of these major problems.)| false
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Schiffman, Sectarian Law, 112-13.

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Ibid., 206.

Ibid., 206-7.

Schiffman, Sectarian Law, 113.

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Henk S. Versnel, “Beyond Cursing: The Appeal to Justice in Judicial Prayers,” in Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, ed. C. A. Faraone and D. Obbink (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 60-106 at 61; cf. Angelos Chaniotis, “Under the Watchful Eyes of the Gods: Divine Justice in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor,” in The Greco-Roman East: Politics, Culture, Society, ed. S. Colvin, ycs 31 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 1-43 at 6-9 on these categorizations.

Henk S. Versnel, “Beyond Cursing: The Appeal to Justice in Judicial Prayers,” in Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion, ed. C. A. Faraone and D. Obbink (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 60-106 at 61; cf. Angelos Chaniotis, “Under the Watchful Eyes of the Gods: Divine Justice in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor,” in The Greco-Roman East: Politics, Culture, Society, ed. S. Colvin, ycs 31 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 1-43 at 6-9 on these categorizations.)| false
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Jokiranta, “Social Identity,” 285.

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Cam Grey, Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 226.

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See ibid., 58-90 on reciprocity.