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Qumran
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Qum·ran  (km-rän) also Khir·bet Qumran (kîrbt)
An ancient village of Palestine on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank east of Jerusalem. It is noted for the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were found.

Qumran [ˈkʊmrɑːn]
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(Placename) See Khirbet Qumran


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More recently, soil research has figured prominently in the discovery of a latrine outside Qumran, which, according to researchers, may indicate that the Qumran community strictly followed the sanitary practices mentioned in Deuteronomy and in the scrolls.
He asks how the Qumran community mediated the divine word and will, and finds that it mostly rewrote ancient prophetic experience, anticipated a new period of prophetic experience during the coming eschatological age, and viewed itself as heir to the ancient prophetic tradition.
The grace of wilderness is not only hugely significant in Scripture for everybody from Abraham on down to John the Baptist and Jesus, but what on earth do we think was going on in the desert with the Essene community and the Qumran community at the time of Jesus?
 
 
 
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