The_Qumran

The Qumran The sect of the Qumran is a sect of Jews so devout to their perception of the Judaic God that they chose to segregate themselves from the rest of Judaic society. A society which they labeled the ‘men of falsehood.’ The Qumran sect existed in a state of fear from what they perceived to be a wrathful God. This fear overtook the sects being and manifested itself in the form of spiritual purification. This form of purification was thought necessary to become as close to their God as possible. Further, the idea of purification dominated the individual of the sect, and as that individual gave their being to God they also gave up their individuality to the collective society. This group society formed their lives in a strict order in fear of offending their God, and thereby obtaining purification. The strive for personal purification moved on to a collective purification. With even grander aims than the societal purification, it grew into a manifestation of Gods army as the sect envisioned itself as ‘the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness.’ The group of the Qumran is a puritan group qumran, god, shall, society, purification, sect, qumranites, nature, iqs, individual, group, themselves, terms, iqm, impious, followers, flesh, covenant, collective, vanity, truth, sons, sense, men, mankind, man, gods, gave, further, battle, against, write, wicked, way, strict