What do you know about the scrolls that were found in a cave , at the Dead Sea area?
Please open the link and you will know more!
It's a great piece of history .
http://www.imj.org.il/en/wings/shrine-book
I took the photo from the garden of the Israel Museum
Would be a wonderful museum to visit. I am interested to learn more about the Essenes who lived at Qumran.
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Yes! One of the most interesting in my opinion. I am also very curious about the Essenes....some information about them is revealed in the scrolls.
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Some of the scrolls travelled here to the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa and I went to visit them... I bought several books that discuss the history and recent discoveries about the Essenes and the Teacher of Righteousness....
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The War scroll looks especially interesting..... The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, also known as "War Rule", "Rule of War" and the "War Scroll", ... discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The manuscript was among the scrolls found in Qumran Cave 1, acquired by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and first published posthumously by Eleazar Sukenik in 1955. The document is made up of various scrolls and fragments including 1QM, and 4Q491-497. It is possible that The War of the Messiah is the conclusion to this document. The 4Q491-497 fragments were published by Baillet in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, and comprise a shorter recension of the War Scroll. Thematically, it seems to be inspired by Zoroastrian texts.
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Your knowledge and fields of interest are vast. Every word is true.
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I became good friends with Robert Eisenman on Facebook who did a lot of research into the Essenes and wrote a book about James the Brother of Jesus.
James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christi... https://www.amazon.com/dp/014025773X/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_vwE1AbD1DJS8M via @amazon
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Thanks. I'll look for his profile on f.b
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I would like to also know more about the Theraputae described by Philo:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutae
According to Philo, the Therapeutae were widely distributed in the Ancient world, among the Greeks and beyond in the non-Greek world of the "Barbarians", with one of their major gathering points being in Alexandria, in the area of the Lake Mareotis:
They lived chastely with utter simplicity; they "first of all laid down temperance as a sort of foundation for the soul to rest upon, proceed to build up other virtues on this foundation" (Philo). They were dedicated to the contemplative life, and their activities for six days of the week consisted of ascetic practices, fasting, solitary prayers and the study of the scriptures in their isolated cells, each with its separate holy sanctuary, and enclosed courtyard:
the entire interval from dawn to evening is given up by them to spiritual exercises. For they read the holy scriptures and draw out in thought and allegory their ancestral philosophy, since they regard the literal meanings as symbols of an inner and hidden nature revealing itself in covert ideas.
— De Vita Contemplativa, para. 28
In addition to the Pentateuch, the Prophets and Psalms they possessed arcane writings of their own tradition, including formulae for numerological and allegorical interpretations.
They renounced property and followed severe discipline:
These men abandon their property without being influenced by any predominant attraction, and flee without even turning their heads back again.
— De Vita Contemplativa para. 18
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I am learning a lot thanks to you🙏🙏🙏
It seems to me intuitively that you are a very spiritual old soul on this planet. 😇😇😇🌎
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Yes probably... I am very interested in the mystics and religious teachers of the past. My mom is very spiritual so maybe it is hereditary.
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