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in the late 1940s.
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A lot of the theories are these Dead Sea scrolls were the
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writings of a sect of Jews led by people
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who had been priestly families, who moved out into the desert,
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set up camp on the shores of the Dead Sea,
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and had their own little sort of maybe quasi monastic community there,
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very strict in their observation of the Law,
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they keep their documents
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They have some documents in Greek,
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some in Hebrew, some in Aramaic.
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So that may have been another way to respond to
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this increasing Hellenization