view of the heavenly sanctuary as presented by the Qumran scroll and that presented in the OT. It must be emphasized at the outset, however, that we are dealing with the views of an uninspired writer at Qumran. Nevertheless, the views found in this scroll are of considerable interest to us, because it tells us what one author or group of people living in Judea in the first century B.C. thought about the heavenly sanctuary. That such an extensive description of the heavenly sanctuary should exist