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This post contains a summary by Claude.ai of the BAS article Who Were the Essenes? What social archaeology tells us about the Essenes of Qumran by BAS Staff. Published on July 07, 2026. This BAS article covers a 2013 study by Eyal Regev (Bar-Ilan University) applying “social archaeology” and “access analysis” to Khirbet Qumran’s architectural layout, […]
Continue ReadingJesus and the Pharisees – by Randy Ingermanson, April 16, 2025 Randy’s article is very interesting and explains a lot about Jesus’ alternating views of the Pharisees as well as the social role of the Sadducees. A few extracts are below to jog my memory. But less than twenty years after he published The Jewish War, [where he […]
Continue ReadingThe article by the same title as this page at the BAS Library provides pros and cons as well as “a way out” of the debate. It is by Otto Betz. Bible Review 6.6 (1990). It is also a great summary of the varying beliefs of the different Essene communities. This page is for our personal use […]
Continue ReadingThe Leon Levy DSS Digital Library Did the Essenes Write the Dead Sea Scrolls? Don’t Rely on Josephus By Steve Mason DSS Page of links to Articles at BAR The Messiah at Qumran including The Messiah Text: 4Q521 and a Line-by-Line Analysis by Michael O. Wise and James D. Tabor. *** Nat Geo’s Who Wrote the DSS? Published […]
Continue ReadingThis post contains many extracts, summaries, and links to scholarly work about the question/title of this post. The range of positions below is wide. The text below is ChatGPT’s Summary of Bart Ehrman’s 12/16/2025 post titled Was Jesus a Member of the Dead Sea Scroll Community (the Essenes)? Summary Bart argues that while the Dead […]
Continue ReadingJerusalem’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 […]
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