the group that wrote the dead sea scrolls was a very
SPECIFIC separatist movement from mainstream
Judaism-----something like a cult. Cults keep secrets. Do you know how "layman" was expressed
in the original hebrew of the scrolls?
Yeah, they were opposed to the corruption of Temple worship and so of course they were marginalized.
If the ruling elite and Temple priests didn't know the hidden teaching they were, as Jesus said, actors and lying frauds.