(Hebrew term related to the word qahal, "gathering, congregation"; translated ekklesiastes in Greek) The Hebrew name of the book of Ecclesiastes; the term used of the purported writer of the book of Ecclesiastes. See Chapter 16.
(Khirbet Qumran) The site near the northwest corner of the Dead Sea in modern Israel (west bank) where the main bulk of the Jewish "Dead Sea Scrolls" were discovered beginning in 1947; the "Qumran community" that apparently produced the scrolls seems to have flourished from the third century B.C.E. to the first century C.E., and is usually identified with the Jewish Essenes. See Conclusion.
