Qumraniteadj.n.
/kʊmˈrɑːnʌɪt/, U.S. /kʊmˈræˌnaɪt/ A. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the religious community at Qumran, or to the scrolls that they preserved. Cf. Qumran adj.
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1957 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 76 264 The Community was very well acquainted with the legendary and apocalyptic literature, which may at least in part have originated in Qumranite circles.
1961 T. F. Glasson Greek Infl. in Jewish Eschatol. viii. 53 The Qumranite community connected with the Dead Sea Scrolls..is thought to have been either Essene or a very closely related movement.
1970 Jewish Q. Rev. 60 220 The Qumranite Scrolls speak frequently of healing in a psychophysical sense, meaning an eschatological cure for the spirit and the improved soma containing it.
2004 J. Zangenburg in D. R. Edwards Relig. & Soc. in Rom. Palestine xiii. 178 These facts..provide the appropriate context for the presence of ‘Qumranite’ ceramics in Jerusalem.
B. n.
A member of the religious community at Qumran.
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1961 T. F. Glasson Greek Infl. in Jewish Eschatol. viii. 55 Dupont-Sommer thinks that the Essenes (whose identity with the Qumranites he accepts) were originally influenced by Zoroastrianism.
1978 G. S. Loyan Is Christ End of Law? iii. 88 If he thought in dualistic categories, they were..not the spirit versus matter of the Greeks nor the light versus darkness of the Qumranites.
2004 Church Times 1 Oct. 13/3 For the Qumranites, the just were ‘the men of truth who kept the law’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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