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Qumran|kʊmˈrɑːn|
The name of a region on the western shore of the Dead Sea, used attrib. to designate (a) a collection of ancient Jewish scrolls (the ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’), discovered in caves there in 1947, or the contents of these scrolls; and (b) a religious community which inhabited a site (Khirbet Qumran) in this region, and to which the scrolls belonged. Hence Qumˈranite n., a member of the religious community of Qumran; also as adj.
1954Biblical Archaeologist XVII. 8 Represented..is a fragment of the ‘Zadokite work’. This document, long an enigma to scholars, had been recognized as related to the Qumran sectarian works as soon as the finds of 1947 became known. 1955H. H. Rowley Dead Sea Scrolls & their Significance i. 8 The type of Biblical text which was used by the Qumran community. Ibid. 11 Palaeographically these appear to be later than the Qumran texts. 1961T. F. Glasson Gk. Influence in Jewish Eschatology viii. 55 Dupont-Sommer thinks that the Essenes (whose identity with the Qumranites he accepts) were originally influenced by Zoroastrianism. Ibid. 53 The Qumranite community connected with the Dead Sea Scrolls..is thought to have been either Essene or a very closely related movement. Ibid. 55 The Qumranite library evidently welcomed a number of the apocalyptic and other non-biblical writings. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Feb. 138/3 Influence of the sect on the church is recognized, though without making the church into a daughter of the Qumran sect. 1967H. Chadwick Early Church i. 15 The New Testament writings and the Qumran Scrolls mutually illuminate one another. 1971R. T. France Jesus & Old Testament v. 173 The Qumran sect was not a major influence in first century ad Palestine. Ibid. 194 Neither the Pseudepigrapha nor the Qumran literature show any use of this passage. 1976Jrnl. Theol. Stud. Oct. 533 For them [sc. the Christian Jews], as for the Qumran community, the communal meal replaced the animal sacrifices of the Temple and was endowed with spiritual meaning. |