The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls What does the discovery of these scrolls reveal about first century Judaism and the roots of Christianity? L. Michael White: Professor of Classics and Director ...

The Essenes, a strict ancient Jewish sect devoted to religious purity and linked to the Dead Sea Scrolls, are one of the most interesting and mysterious religious elements in Judaea around the ...

The prevailing view among archaeologists has been that Essenes at a Qumran monastery were the keepers of the Dead Sea Scrolls — but that view has come under increasing challenge in recent years ...

The Essenes are only mentioned by the ancient writers Pliny the Elder, Philo of Alexandria and the early Jewish historian Josephus -- and then only briefly. The accounts of all three writers ...

Instead, he explores the evidence by focusing on five areas where the world of the Essenes can cast light on the roots of Christianity: baptism, the Eucharist, marriage and celibacy, the ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls may have been written, at least in part, by a sectarian group called the Essenes, according to nearly 200 textiles discovered in caves at Qumran, in the West Bank, where the ...

Smithee’s theory has landed like a bombshell in the cloistered world of biblical scholarship. But some traditionalists say it’s possible that the Essenes existed AND that Elior does as well.

The Essenes and the Dead Sea Scrolls What does the discovery of these scrolls reveal about first century Judaism and the roots of Christianity? L. Michael White: Professor of Classics and Director ...