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Essenes is not well known jewish tribe, and also an unknown school. The Pharisee, and Sadducee are very famous for their idea and learning, but the Essenes is surprisingly unfamous compared to those two. Tracing back the history of Essenes you would find the name 'Qumran community'. Qumran community is named after the location of their documents. The documents were found in Qumran cave, and Qumran community was named to refer to the people living around the cave. Many scholars seems to believe that Qumran community and Essenes are the same people. Qumran community and Essenes share unique characteristics that are different from Pharisee and Sadducee. Their idea was to restoration of Jerusalem at the end of the world based on dualism and the apocalyptic ideology. They wanted to live as a righteous man, therefore refusing the offering of a church, and live in the desert, waiting for the coming of Messiah. As the final outcome, their creed and the idea was wrong, but if might be helpful to explain the alienation problem between the early part of incarnation era and the Malachi era. Qumran community suggest the efforts to protect the purity of faith. In the same vein, concentrate on the history of Essenes, and throughout their thoughts and their sense, I will look in to their life.