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Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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Documents from the third group have been identified by some scholars with the Essenes , a Jewish religious sect living an ascetic communal agricultural life in the region between the 2d cent. BC and 2d cent. AD. It has also been hypothesized that the Qumran scrolls are the secreted library of a community, perhaps Essene, that lived at Qumran , and thus survived the destruction of the settlement in c.AD 68.

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