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The participation of these priests, scribes, and devout ones in the resistance is important for understanding the prehistory of the Qumran group, since its earliest members may originally have derived from some of these very parties. Alongside these groups and many from among the peasantry, Mattathias instigated a swift and effective guerilla revolt against Antiochus and the Hellenizing party. After his death, his son Judas Maccabeus (“the hammer”) would complete his work. Judas Maccabeus won a series of unlikely battles against the generals of Antiochus.
It is also possible, on the other hand, that this mode of burial was simply local to this region, perhaps as a guard against the desecration of graves by scavenging animals. One may also ask why those who organized the Qumran cemetery so carefully buried their dead along a northsouth axis. Émile Puech has provided an interesting proposal for answering this question. Based upon his exhaustive study of ancient beliefs in resurrection of the dead, immortality, and eternal life, Puech has proposed that the Qumran group may have buried their dead according to an ancient belief that Paradise was located in cosmic regions far to the north.
Far from being a zone of complete isolation, the wilderness of Judea often became a sacred landscape in which many of the great religious and political dramas of the age were played out. One is not surprised, therefore, that remains from other sites have been discovered within the Judean wilderness. ”9 The relationships between Qumran and these other sites remain a pressing question in current research. Ein Feshkha South of Qumran, de Vaux discovered a small agricultural settlement that developed around a central water source.