Jerusalem’s Essene Gateway – Where the Community Lived in Jesus’ Time by Bargil Pixner
” I sincerely thank Professor James Tabor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dr. Rainer Riesner of the University of Tübingen and Professor James Strange of the University of South Florida for their great help in preparing this article.”
The article linked below by Otto Betz contains much insight into the Essenes by citing the pros and cons of how they and John the Baptist could be related. See the page at this site with extracts of those positions.
