Secreters of Dead Sea Scrolls

• Dead Sea Scrolls people
• Early Jewish sect members
• Dead Sea monastics
• Dead Sea Scrolls makers
• Sect linked to the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Ascetics of old
• Dead Sea ascetics
• Ancient Dead Sea sect
• Qumran inhabitants

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Essene \Es*sene"\, n.; pl. Essenes . [Gr. ?, lit., physicians, because they practiced medicine, fr. Chald [=a]say[=a] to heal, cf. Heb. as[=a].] One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.