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• A few believe that Qumran was a military fortress, part of a concentric series of such bastions protecting Jerusalem. Some believe that it was a pottery or a Roman villa!

• While one can no longer speak of any consensus regarding Qumran, what can be said is that current scholarship appears to be polarized between the traditional Qumran-sectarian theory and a view that the site was secular in nature.