They've built a cracking museum to display the Dead Sea Scrolls. Not only is the architecture clever and iconic, it's also pretty insightful. It appears that the chaps who had the Scrollswere a group who had had it with Jerusalem and the Temple. All a bit corrupt and defiled for their liking, so they went off to set up their own community which more closely modelled how they thought things should be. They were committed to the idea of the Human Sanctuary i.e. that God dwelt in people rather than the Temple - sounded similar to what another guy was saying a little later.
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