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1 For the evidence supporting the conclusion that a sectarian group lived at the site, and that that group was responsible for most, if not all, of the manuscripts found in the neighboring caves, see D. Dimant, “The Qumran Manuscripts: Content and Signi- fi cance,” Prepare the Way in the Wilderness (eds D. Dimant and L. Schiffman; Leiden: Brill, 1995) 23 – 58. 2 The most extensive discussion of this conclusion is T.S. Beall, Josephus’s Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). 3 For the purposes of this paper I ignore the