Amos Bar Josef had not wanted to join the Dead Sea Scroll-writers, the Essenes, because of their stringent rules. He joined, however, to suit Esther, whose Uncle Mordecai, was the Guardian. Breaking rules, he wore his linen loin cloth outside, and his brothers ripped it off. He ran away naked through the crowd, gathered at the arrest of man called Jesus. (Mark 14:51-2). Then he joined the Sicarii, the rebels who fought Rome over taxes.