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QUMRAN COMMUNITY. Qumran sits on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea and is best known as the findspot of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Jewish group lived at Qumran from the first century B.C.E. to the first century C.E. This group copied, collected, and composed the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in caves within and near the settlement. Fragments of the Book of Ezra came from Cave 4.