The introduction claims that the first edition printed 200,000 copies and there was a report of people lining up to buy it in Benares, a.k.a. The Third sect (after the Sadducees and Pharisees).The Apron Wearers". Potter quotes historians Philo, Josephus and Pliny, who described those communities.Īpropos the name "Essenes" the author suggests it's hard to translate as there are a many names (more than 20, I've counted) assigned to the sect: "The Seers, The Pious, The Silent Ones. The Essenes were the" intermediary" step between Judaism and Christianity. He characterizes the Essene communities of those places. In his analysis he includes both the Dad Sea Scrolls and the Nag-Hammadi discoveries. Reverend Potter puzzles me for his objectivity. I just don’t agree with Potter on this idea. He advanced the idea that the doctrines of the “Holy Spirit “ and of the “Holy Trinity” would have “to go”. Reverend Potter saw those discoveries so important that he thought some Bible passages would need re-interpretation, even correction. "It may be true, but everybody knows that God is a good Presbyterian." "Never mind, darling" comforted her mother. The little girl said that her teacher said that Jesus was a Jew. Excitedly, the child declared she was never going back again. "This alarm of good Christians is amusingly illustrated in the anecdote of the pious little girl who came home from Sunday School where talk had circulated about the pastor's sermon on the Scrolls. Potter refers the belief of some Hindus: "that Jesus' Lost Years were, partly at least, spent in India, getting much of his teaching from the Vedas." In The New Testament, Rev Potter finds out that they (monks of Qumran) were called "sons of Zadok" (King David's high priest). that the proven Mother of Christianity was the splinter Jewish sect sometimes called the "Essenes". The Third sect (after the Sadducees and Pharisees).The Apron Wearers".Īnd yet Potter seems the be bent on this thesis: ". Potter quotes historians Philo, Josephus and Pliny, who described those communities.Īpropos the name "Essenes" the author suggests it's hard to translate as there are many names (more than 20, I have counted) assigned to the sect: "The Seers, The Pious, The Silent Ones. The Essenes were the "intermediary" step between Judaism and Christianity. In his analysis he includes both the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag-Hammadi discoveries. Josephus, who spent 3 years in the Qumran community (A.D.37-95) None among them can be found richer than another" "They despise wealth, and their socialism is remarkable.
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