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How Market Incentives Damaged Scrolls
- Early Bedouin finders sold fragments to an antiquities dealer nicknamed Kando, who acted as middleman to scholars.
- Paying per inscribed area incentivized cutting manuscripts into smaller, damaged fragments.
Value Of Uninscribed Fragments
- Uninscribed parchment pieces matter because they reveal scribal practices, construction, and manuscript function.
- Material philology treats these fragments as archaeological evidence, not just text carriers.
Qumran Community Beliefs
- Many scholars link the Qumran community to the Essenes, a separatist Jewish sect focused on ritual purity and eschatology.
- Their texts reveal mystical worship practices claiming communion with angels in an eschatological temple.