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...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...
...High Priests in perpetuity, also gave them permission "to stamp out, indeed to persecute, those who refuse to recognize the full legitimacy of his office. This program seems to give the appropriate occasion for the crystallization of the Essene sect." Cross finds further evidence for this identification in a Qumran document that quotes Joshua's curse upon Jericho and follows it with a curse on an unnamed man and his sons who fortified a "stronghold of wickedness." Simon, while drunk, and later two of his sons were assassinated at Jericho on an inspection tour of its fortifications...
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...
...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...
...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...