Part Three: The Eucharist and the Scrolls (Part Two) This difference between the two calendars, whereby the Essenes celebrated it on Tuesday but “the Jews” four days later on Saturday, […]
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Month: October 2019
Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt III)
Part Three: The Eucharist and the Scrolls (Part One) Chapter 6 is titled: “Did Qumran Have a “Eucharist”?”, and commences with Justin Martyr, describing the Christian Eucharist about the year […]
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Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt II)
Part Two: Baptism and the Scrolls At the outset, Bergsma succinctly states why a connection between the Baptist and the Essenes seems probable: The Essenes were the only sect of […]
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Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt I)
John Bergsma, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity, Image, New York, 2019 (256 pp.) … the fact that the Essenes, by their prayer and […]
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