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• 1. There are similarities between the description of an initiation ceremony of new members in the Community Rule and an account of the Essene initiation ceremony.

• 2. Essenes shared property among the members of the community and so does the Community Rule.

• 3. During the excavation of Kirbet Qumran two inkwells were found, giving weight to the theory that the scrolls were actually written there.