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The New Damascus Document consists of three parts: a) a composite edition of the twelve ancient and medieval manuscripts with notes; b) a new translation of the Hebrew text; and c) a commentary upon the composite text. Of the twelve manuscripts that survive from this work, two of them, the so-called CD-A and CD-B transcribed in the 11th and 12th centuries and discovered a century ago, remain the most important documents attesting to the 2,200 or 2,300 year-old composition. Fortunately, ten more manuscripts survive among the DSS found in 1947 and thereafter in the caves of Qumran—specifically eight in Cave 4 (4Q266–273), one in Cave 5 (5Q12) and one in Cave 6 (6Q15). The CD texts found in the genizah of the Cairo Synagogue are too well known to need description here. Some of the cave manuscripts overlap the CD material, but much more is new. The extant manuscripts not only tell what survives, but also reveal a great deal about what has perished. Up to 1947 when only the CD texts were known, the extent of the original was completely unknown. Many presumed that the first lines of CD, “and now, heed me all you who know righteousness and discern the acts of God,” were its original beginning. The Qumran manuscripts have shown that the original work contained more than a page preceding the text of CD. It
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