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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Thats cool Text. Are there anthropology conclusions you plan to expand on? (i.e. social implications to how they move)
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I will likely stay away from anthropology / sociology, and leave those sorts of speculations to the experts. As you can well imagine, bad things happen when experts on occasion step outside of their own disciplines.
In the last ten years or so, the growing consensus among scholars is that the group that wrote and collected the Dead Sea Scrolls were not such an isolated sect of "fringe" religious zealots. More likely, this was a significant religious group, who likely consisted of a variety of sub-groups or individual small communities that were beholden to many of the same ideals, but varied in certain practices, community structures, minor beliefs, etc. To this point, no one has attempted to isolate sub-groups, and I will attempt to do so through an analysis of various historiographic texts that all appear related, but with various differences in their own retelling of Essene origins and existence.