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Leather Sandals, Qumran Caves Dec 15th 2011, 11:01 Historical information about the Essene sect (the likely writers of the scrolls) is known not simply from the scrolls themselves. Information about clothing and lifeways is also derived from reports from ancient writers such as Josephus and Philo of Athens. The men at Qumran probably wore plain robes of undyed linen that they shared communally. Evidence for the presence of women at Qumran is scarce; a very small minority of the 1100 people buried in the cemetery at Qumran are women; and the scrolls only rarely mention women at all. One possibility is that the sectarian group was primarily a celibate group of men. Primary Source Jodi Magness, 2002. The Archaeology of the Dead Sea Scrolls. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan. For More Information Archaeology of the Dead Sea Scrolls Pacific Science Center Exhibition: The Dead Sea Scrolls The Israeli Antiquities Authority

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