What Jesus Learned from the Essenes
The Blessing of Poverty, the Bane of Divorce
 Scholars have been cautious about drawing a direct line between Jesus and the Dead Sea Scroll sectarians. Indeed, perhaps the most criticized sentence in the vast literature about the Dead Sea Scrolls is one penned by the great American literary critic Edmund Wilson. Based on the conclusions of the French Dead Sea Scroll scholar André Dupont-Sommer, Wilson wrote:
The monastery [at Qumran, adjacent to the caves where the scrolls were found], this structure of stone that endures, between the waters and precipitous cliffs, with its oven and its inkwells, its mill and its cesspool, its constellations of sacred fonts and the unadorned graves of its dead, is perhaps, more than Bethlehem or Nazareth, the cradle of Christianity.1
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Dig 2004
Ossuary Update
By James A. Harrell
Features
By Konstantinos Politis
By Magen Broshi
Departments
By Hershel Shanks
By Suzanne F. Singer
By Alexander H. Joffe
By Alan R. Millard
Further ReadingDead Sea ScrollsEssenes
Josephus, Flavius
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