One of talkbackers said that it may be that the Essenes may have been an extreme wing of the Saduceees who broke off the that other "stream" of Jewish life in the Second Commonwealth.
The honorable scholar says they didn`t exist?! The Scrolls exist, we found artifacts of daily life. Somebody lived there.
There is Israel Beytaynu and Kahanists to the right if them, right? When are the academics of the world start looking "inside", consider that history is not just events, but people, and at times, political movements that follow patterns that cross the centuries. Obviously the details are different, but the reactions may "look" the same, as in the case of the Essenes, who took a more extreme view of the what was going on in the religious life in the Second Commonwealth. |
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