
A professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem says the sect that supposedly authored the scrolls ~ the Essenes ~ likely never existed, and that the scrolls are the work instead of Jewish priests writing about Sadducees in Jerusalem. This calls into question considerable speculation that Jesus may have been associated with the Essenes.
If right, this new scholarship throws into doubt some long-standing contentions regarding early Christianity and paves the way for fascinating revisions.
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