Possible Clues:

• Six points made by ascetic Jew
• Member of Dead Sea Scrolls sect
• Zealot not cold in heart
• Jewish ascetic, not cold in heart
• Sounds as if one might have had a view of the Dead Sea
• A sect that's seen and sound
• The sect starts in Germany and gets to the East
• The sort of scene that sounds a sect
• With such sense, 'e might make it to the end of 24 down
• Sounds like a bit of play for the sect