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The Dead Sea Scrolls
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Clearly and the schism that caused the Dead Sea sect to arise can only be understood in the context of Jewish history and the sectarianism of the Second Temple period in Judea. Across twenty centuries, the Scrolls speak to us of the pluralism that existed in ancient Judaism, each group competing t ....
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....arians under the heading 'Essenes'."1 "It seems from the generalizations he made in his 'Fourth Philosophy', that he may have described several groups as one."2 Because it is known that many Jewish sects existed during the Second Temple period, there is not enough clear evidence to conclude that the Essenes of whom Philo and Josephus described were also one and the same as the Dead Sea sect.
In the writing of this paper, many diverse scholarly opinions on the origins of the Dead Sea sect were.... |
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