 Some believe they were daily prayers, or a moral instruction booklet or even war songs sung after a victory.Menahem Mansoor holds that The Thanksgiving scroll was a private psalter for a select group within a community that modeled the correct way to praise God for deliverance.Svend Holm-Nielsen believes that the "Hodayot" served a liturgical purpose as hymns sung or recited during certain ceremonies, such as the initiation ceremonies described in the Community Rule (1QS) and the War Scroll (1QM).