Do the Scrolls Suggest Rivalry Between the Sons of Aaron and the Sons of Zadok and If So was It Mutual?

This article emphasizes that references to the sons of Zadok are now heavily outnumbered by a very large number of references to the sons of Aaron especially in the more recently published Cave 4 manuscripts. After a survey of all the occurrences of the designation the sons of Zadok in the non-biblical Scrolls it is argued that the sons of Zadok are found in two rather limited contexts: in exegetical contexts referring to the community as a whole and as community leaders in the Scroll made up of 1QS-1QSa-1QSb. The elevated claims made on behalf of this group in the limited number of places where they occur have successfully obscured the relatively scarce and localized profile of references.