... this theory. The community was seen as one which was pious with intense religious fervor, a community which by its own doctrine may have given others the opinion that they were "selfless servants" who were perhaps delivering messages from the Messiah in their writings. Whether it will ever be established that the Essenes were connected with the teachings of Jesus will probably ... ...

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