Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ra'ayi tsakanin malamai, kusan gabaɗaya ana gudanar da shi har zuwa shekarun 1990, shine "Qumran<unk>Essene" wanda aka fara da Roland Guérin de Vaux da Józef Tadeusz Milik, kodayake masu zaman kansu Eliezer Sukenik da Butrus Sowmy na St Mark's Monastery sun haɗa da littattafai tare da Essenes tun kafin kowane tonawa a Qumran. Ka'idar Qumran<unk>Essene ta ce mutanen Essenes ne suka rubuta naɗaɗɗun littattafan, ko kuma wata rukunin Yahudawa masu addini, da suke zaune a Khirbet Qumran. Sun rubuta naɗaɗɗun littattafai kuma daga baya suka ɓoye su a cikin kogon da ke kusa a lokacin tawayen Yahudawa
wani lokaci tsakanin 66 da 68 CE. An halaka Qumran kuma ba a sake samun littattafan ba.