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Scholars have proposed both sectarian and non-sectarian explanations for the purpose of the Qumran settlement. 

One important difference between Jodi Magness’s reconstruction of Qumran and Roland de Vaux’s is that Magness:

The Hellenistic Reform associated with Jason included:

Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls contain information that closely resembles traditions found in the Gospels. 

Which Jewish group particularly emphasized purity, tithing, fasting, Sabbath observance, oral tradition, and bodily resurrection?

The oldest, mostly complete copy of an Old Testament book from Qumran is:

The period between the Testaments may properly be described as “silent” because almost no Jewish literature survives from it. 

The doctrine of the “two spirits” teaches that:

Within the organization of the Qumran community, the maskil functioned primarily as: