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1QpHab 11.4–8 proves, first, that the group around the Teacher of Righteousness celebrated the Day of Atonement, and secondly, that it did so on a different date from the temple in Jerusalem. With this discovery, Shemaryahu Talmon contributed to the historical and theological classification of the Dead Sea finds.⁹¹ His remarks on the calendar were confirmed by subsequent discoveries. The drama of the incident in which, on the day the community around the Teacher of Righteousness celebrates the Day of Atonement, the serving Jerusalem High priest pursued him to the place of his exile and tried to destroy him on the Day of Atonement, points to the well-documented difference between the calendar of the Jerusalem temple and that of the Yahad of the Teacher of Righteousness.⁹²