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What does Essene mean?

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Noun
  1. Member of a first-century ascetic Jewish sect, in ancient Palestine from the second century BCE to the second century CE. The Essenes are believed to have been the authors of the Dead Sea scrolls.
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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.

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