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...Moral Code. Theodor H. Caster's The Dead Sea Scriptures (Doubleday; $4-Anchor Books; 95?) is the first complete English translation of the scrolls for laymen. Now visiting professor of history of religions at Columbia University and professor of comparative religion at Dropsie College, Gaster prints the virtually complete text of the scrolls, together with a concordance of passages in the scrolls that also appear in the Old and New Testaments. Most informative is the "Manual of Discipline," which sets down the moral code of the Qumran sect, with detailed stipulations: "Everyone is to be judged by the standard...