The name Essene is downplayed in the San Diego Natural History Museum Exhibit. Historically, there are many references to the Essenes as the inhabitants of Qumran.

Date:   12/16/2007 6:37:40 PM ( 17 y ago)

http://members.aol.com/Wisdomway/deadseascrolls.htm

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From Answer;com:

Location

According to Josephus the Essenes had settled "not in one city" but "in large numbers in every town" (War 2.124). Philo speaks of "more than four thousand" Essaioi living in "Palestinian Syria" (Quod Omn. Prob. XII.75), more precisely, "in many cities of Judaea and in many villages and grouped in great societies of many members" (Hyp. 11.1).

Pliny locates them "on the west side of the Dead Sea, away from the coast ... [above] the town of Engeda"

Some modern scholars and archeologists have argued that Essenes inhabited the settlement at Qumran, a plateau in the Judean Desert along the Dead Sea, citing Pliny the Elder in support, and giving credence that the Dead Sea Scrolls are the product of the Essenes. This view, though not yet conclusively proven, has come to dominate the scholarly discussion and public perception of the Essenes.


http://www.answers.com/topic/essene


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This URL above traces a connection between the Essenes
and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Dead Sea Scroll Exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum
downplays the use of the name Essene.

A cover on Time Magazine from 1957
shown in the exhbit is one of the few places
where the Essenes are mentioned.

The beautiful done video description
of the exhibit refers to the "sons of light."

The Essenes were called the Sons of Light
in various references.


Jesus studied at Qumran:

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1064059


My Essene Biography:

http://lesliegoldman.com/Essene_School_of_Thought/id30.htm





 

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