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Dead Sea Scroll scholars have argued for Sadducees connected with the nearby ruins of Qumran. Qumran-Essene hypothesis note, scholars have long used the Qumran texts as aSectarian texts are those that contain several of the following features: a distinctive This book provides a new translation of substantial extracts from the Qumran writings, which comprise an important part of the Dead Sea scrolls. Although members of the Qumran sect appear to have been multilingual, as a community the sect clearly preferred Hebrew for This paper examines the origin and history of the Qumran community. The writings reflect the beliefs Qumran Community Qumran community is the Ascetic sect of Jews who lived in the Judean Desert near the Wadi Qumran, along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea STEVE WEITZMAN. Archaeological studies, including excavation of Khir bet Qumran in, soon revealed the existence of an ancient religious community with facilities such as dormitories, a common dining hall, cisterns, and a scriptorium, for conducting its distinc tive way of life in this isolated spot James VanderKam has been the most vocal proponent of the Qumran ssene hypothesis and its accompanying historical reconstruction on the merican scene. In his widely read introduction to the Scrolls, e Dead Sea Scrolls Today, VanderKam develops a case for the ssene hypothesis, assessing the evidence of the Scrolls, the archaeology of Qumran, and The presence of scroll caves within the confines of Khir bet Qumran and the discovery of the same pottery types in both the settlement and the scroll caves (including large numbers of cylindrical jars and bowl-shaped lids) show that the scrolls belonged to the Qumran community Prophets and Prophecy in the Qumran Community of these manuscripts in the Qumran library and the explicit use of prooftexts from Daniel in sectarian literature testify to the wide popularity and influence that Daniel texts enjoyed at Qumran Danielis often heralded as the locus classicus for revelatory exegesis in Second Temple Judaism The Community Rule (1QS) was one of the first of the Qumran scrolls to be found and remains one of the most important. INDIANA UNIVERSITY. It provides a set of regulations to govern the life of a community living an independent existence and is most naturally interpreted as being intended for those members of the wider Essene movement who lived at Qumran Who were the Jews who lived in Qumran?