Comments on: Who Were the Essenes?

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 19:40:46 +0000

In reply to Craig Thomas. The Jesus story is a complete fabrication, written by Eusebius of Cesaria together with Lactancius, under orders of Constantine , in the CE year 303, It is as valid as Superman, or Batman stories that fill our XXieith Century imaginations. For confirmation of the Fraudulence of the Scriptures, read authors Fernando Conde Torrens; Llegari Pujol; Joseph Atwell; Bart Erhman; Ricardo Zavala Toia; Claudio Fantini; etc:.

By: Ron at Winder

Ron at Winder — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 02:11:44 +0000

I’m troubled by the circular reasoning implicit in a study titled “Essenes of Qumran,” as if it’s a certainty that Qumran was ever used by Essenes for a “scroll factory,” or whatever the line of reasoning is. Such studies tend to cherry-pick the evidence, ignoring any evidence that it was instead a Herodian fort or settlement, with graves laid out in distinctly non-Jewish fashion and a host of other evidence, such as that Livy placed the Essenes at Ein Gedi some 30 miles to the south. Why is it that this topic is beyond objective study? Is there a politico-religious doctrine at play?

By: Michael Smith, M.A.

Michael Smith, M.A. — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 22:40:39 +0000

In “Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls” (1995) Norman Golb shows by social and physical archaeology that Khirbet (“ruins of”) Qumran had nought to do with the Essenes. All physical artefacts (incl. hundreds of coins giving terminus ad quem of 1st Cent. B.C. to ~70 A.D.) show a military garrison was there intermittently within those dates. Nor was there any script-writing done there, with no literary fragments found, in any sort of “scriptorium’, which was, rather a dining place. The “Manual of Discipline” scroll emphasized no women were among Essenes, in any sort of “desert sect”, yet women’s & children’s graves are found beside the Qumran watchtower, in violation of Jewish law.

By: D.R.

D.R. — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 22:17:53 +0000

It is an interesting and new study.

By: Beau

Beau — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 17:23:49 +0000

What if the remains are simply foundation support walls to allow a building to be constructed on a level floor?
Could they not be simply the basement under something more fragil that did not endure time like the stone?

By: @Atmosfierce

@Atmosfierce — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 05:37:07 +0000

I would love to visit the places of the Holy Land. Technology has enabled us to spread the gospel all over the world within seconds. Truly, we live in an amazing time period.

By: Darnell Treadway

Darnell Treadway — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:04:16 +0000

To many people put to much emphasis on what the believe in, they kill for thier religion, they think thier one religion is better than others in a gang like mentality. If something or someone is about peace then I say it is good and if it complements humanity, then again, I say is good. People People what is the big deal about a belief, I the belief is real or true then it can manifest into the physical world and if it is not then it can and never will appear in the physical world. It is a beautiful thing to believe in an unbelievable world but make no mistake knowledge is the goal of every human being to attain. There are a lot more things you need to know than are things to belive in to be at peace in this slowly declining world. When we pass do you think we are to be judged by what we believed or how we live. People of all religions, put to much emphasize on how they believe and not how they live and that is the problem that can not be resolved in any church,mosk, or monestary, it has to be done in each and everyones heart. Jesus was not a christian, muslin, or any of those, as a matter of fact it was not even physical it was simply the anointing of the creator. If you look at a tree just for its beauty you will totally forget its job . Physical beauty has nothing to do with its spiritual job. We need to get out of the physical and get back into the spiritual and stop letting people control us with a belief which is religion, open your eyes to the light

By: chetan

chetan — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 14:24:57 +0000

The Essenes were the Jains of India. It is one of the oldest religion of India. They follows the same way of life and philosophy as described. The Jains of India are very few in numbers mostly in western Indian states of Rajasthan , Gujarat and Maharashtra. There monks follow still the same life style and Principles of Non violence in extreme form, travel from one city to another giving religious sermons. There are two types of monks – one cover their body with white linen cloth and other remain naked through out their life.
I fail to understand why western scholars could notice striking similarities of Jains of India and Essenes.

By: TDJ

TDJ — Wed, 06 May 2015 10:46:13 +0000

So, the Essenes were monks.

That’s a great discovery.

~Theo

By: Darnell Treadway

Darnell Treadway — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:39:08 +0000

they took the power of mathmatics, philosophy, music , medicine and gave you biblical philosophy. tetra biblos, our real power was all of the above, so we need to start teaching our children again all that was taken. So everybody get up off of your knees look around and wake up from this mental slaverylllllllllllllllllll