These scrolls reveal a community that believed that God had rejected the priests and the temple service in Jerusalem and that he viewed their group’s worship in the desert as a kind of substitute temple service.
७० मध्ये जेरूसलेमच्या मंदिराचा नाश होण्याआधी यहुद्यांनी या गुंडाळ्या तेथून आणून गुहांमध्ये लपवून ठेवल्या होत्या.