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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article is enlightening, but it does not offer a reasonable solution to the question of where Jesus spent the years unaccounted for from twelve to 30. It would be a reasonable conclusion that he was at Qumran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...find most repugnant the unwarranted conclusions drawn from the Qumran scrolls and their relationship to the origin of the principles and practices of the Roman Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

This is not to say that there was no connection between the Essene community at Qumran and the first Christians. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness near Qumran at a time when the community was flourishing; he was, like the covenanters, an ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...structure of the early church was much like that of the Qumran Community. Both had a council of Twelve, and the membership of each was known as "the Many." The Essene Twelve were to be judges at the end of the world, a role which Jesus also gave to his twelve disciples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...They hope soon to study the contents of Cave II, are never sure that Kando the shoemaker will not walk in, carrying some new revelation in a cigarette box. In the meantime, the scrolls have opened a wide new door to the study of Christianity. For the people of Qumran and the early Christians shared the same Hebraic theological tradition as well as the same language - in an era for which Aramaic and Hebrew sources hardly exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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