Due to the various spellings of ?Essene? the word could also mean ?pious one,? or ?doers,? or ?doers of the Torah? All of these meanings seem to have been derived from the word. Being much fewer in number than the Pharisees and the ...
The site has ruins from what is believed to be a first century Essene Community - a Jewish group that emphasized the need for ritual purity and believed they were preparing for the battle of good vs. evil - Light vs. Darkness. ...
Pliny is quite firm that his Essene community was always celibate, but then he also says they had been there for countless ages, so his sources were not perfect. Nevertheless, apart from that one certainly female skeleton, ...
