Among the virtues the Essenes cultivated especially obedience, truthfulness, continence, justice, and temperance; they paid great attention to the sick, respect to the aged, and showed marked kindness and hospitality to strangers.
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The Essenes (Greek Εσσηνοι, Εσσαιοι, or Οσσαιοι) were a Jewish religious group that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE that some scholars claim seceded from the Zadokite pries...
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are usually thought to have been produced by a group known as the Essenes. And the Essenes are a group that literally abandoned Jerusalem, it seems, in protest... against the way the Temple was being run.
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The Essenes possessed a hierarchy. The chief priest was known as Christos (Anointed One), "head of the whole Congregation of israel." The ordinary priests were called "sons of Aaron," and there was another functionary known as the Messiah of Israel.
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The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel is an esoteric spiritual Order which fully embraces the deeper levels of the ancient Nazorean 'Way' of Jesus the Christ. We are a modern resurrection of the ancient Nazorean Christians. ... There were anciently two branches of Essenes - the Ossaeans and the Nazorean. The southern Ossaeans...
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The Essene Church of Christ, The Essene Path Quarterly Journal, books and Ministerial Training Program ... ; RealAudio Tapes on the Essenes, by Nazariah...
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Details Christian history according to an Essene/Nazarene view, including use of a "Gospel of the Holy Twelve." ... The Nazarene Way of Essenic Studies;; The Esoteric Teachings of Jesus and the Nazarene Essenes...
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A discussion on the Essenes. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. ... The Essenes were members of an ascetic Jewish sect of the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. Most of them lived on the western shore of the Dead Sea. They are identified by many scholars with the Qumran community...
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