Sometimes called "the first Dead Sea Scroll," the Damascus Document is an ancient Jewish sectarian rule text that was initially discovered by Solomon Schechter in the late 1890s in the Cairo Genizah. Schechter's publication of the two manuscripts that he identified (one dated to the 10th century C.E. and one to the 12th) led to a flurry of responses by scholars who disagreed variously on the origins of the text (was it a "true" ancient document or a medieval "forgery"?) and the community with which it should be associated (Sadducean? Essene? Pharisaic? "An Unknown Jewish Sect"?). The discovery, half a century later, of ancient manuscripts of this very text in the caves at Qumran successfully confirmed the text's antiquity and also provided the Damascus Document with a historical social setting, in the context of ancient Jewish sectarianism.