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Essenes - Wikipedia According to Jewish writers Josephus and Philo, the Essenes numbered around four thousand, and resided in various settlements throughout Judaea
Who Are the Essenes? - Bible Study The Essenes were a New Testament religious sect that existed from the second century B C to the first century A D Of the three main religious groups mentioned by Josephus (a well known first century Jewish historian), they are the only ones not found directly in Scripture
Essenes - World History Encyclopedia There was a community in Jerusalem; one of the gates into the city was known as the Essene Gate in the 1st century Members had a three-year initiation period (later adopted by Christians) and emphasized the water rituals of baptism and the restoration of purity
Who Were the Essenes? Bible Facts and Meaning - Christianity An almost forgotten Jewish sect until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s -50s, the Essenes were a small, separatist group that grew out of the conflicts of the Maccabean age Here's what we know about them from the Bible
ESSENES - JewishEncyclopedia. com Relation of Essenism to Christianity A branch of the Pharisees who conformed to the most rigid rules of Levitical purity while aspiring to the highest degree of holiness
The Essenes: The Mystery Holy Men Behind the Dead Sea Scrolls? Some have speculated, however, that Essene practices were contributed, in one way or another, to early Christian monasticism, and they are also connected with various Kabbalistic or Hasidic trends by some Jewish mystical thought