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Conclusion
By looking closely at the ancient people of Qumran—what they thought and how they behaved—we are given an extraordinary window into the religious climate that spawned Pharisaic Judaism, as well as another covenant group of dissenters—the early Christian contemporaries of the Qumran community. The people of Qumran stood at a historical juncture, a crossroads in a period that witnessed the eventual survival of only two ideologies, Pharisaic(rabbinic) Judaism and Christianity.
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