We have stated Christ may have been an Essene either by birth or by conversion. |
And of course the man carrying the pitcher may have been a member of the Essene faction, whose men eschewed marriage and carried their own water. |
The annals of an important monastery of the Essene sect, located only about twenty miles from Jerusalem, have recently been discovered. |
The author says that all this is pure nihilism, and Essene communism. |
The first Lon event in Belgium that took place on September 21st 1999 at Essene was a big success. |
In post-biblical times, some members of the Essene sect, according to the historian Josephus, rejected marriage, and the medieval Talmudic scholar Ben Azzai remained celibate. |