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Between 1947 and 1956, eleven caves were
discovered near Qumran, which contained
fragments of some eight hundred scrolls from the
Second Temple period. As Yigael Yadin observed,
this was "the most important discovery made in the
Holy Land in the fields of Bible, history, and the
history of Judaism and Christianity." Unfortunately,
only about twenty scrolls survived nearly in fact,
and just fragments have been preserved of the rest.
We have chosen to present the everyday life of the
members of the Judaean Desert sect. We have tried
to show how the sectarians' way of life reflected the
concept of separation that informed all of their
behavior. As far as possible, artifacts and written
documents have been displayed together, so that
each may throw light on the other, thus creating a
picture of life in the "Yahad" community. The
settlement at Qumran served a community of
between 150 and 200 people, thought by most
scholars to have been members of a religious sect.
There is no way of knowing whether the sect
consisted solely of men, or whether women and
children belonged too. However, even if it is
assumed that women took no part in the religious
ceremonies, they were buried in the settlement's
cemetery and must have been associated with this
group.
discovered near Qumran, which contained
fragments of some eight hundred scrolls from the
Second Temple period. As Yigael Yadin observed,
this was "the most important discovery made in the
Holy Land in the fields of Bible, history, and the
history of Judaism and Christianity." Unfortunately,
only about twenty scrolls survived nearly in fact,
and just fragments have been preserved of the rest.
We have chosen to present the everyday life of the
members of the Judaean Desert sect. We have tried
to show how the sectarians' way of life reflected the
concept of separation that informed all of their
behavior. As far as possible, artifacts and written
documents have been displayed together, so that
each may throw light on the other, thus creating a
picture of life in the "Yahad" community. The
settlement at Qumran served a community of
between 150 and 200 people, thought by most
scholars to have been members of a religious sect.
There is no way of knowing whether the sect
consisted solely of men, or whether women and
children belonged too. However, even if it is
assumed that women took no part in the religious
ceremonies, they were buried in the settlement's
cemetery and must have been associated with this
group.
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