Articles tagged with "Flavius Josephus"

Scholar Claims Dead Sea Scrolls "Author" Didn't Exist

Submitted by: josiah, March 16th, 2009 Topic: Israel Forums

Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish community known as the Essenes, which flourished in the 1st century A.D. in the scorching desert canyons near the Dead Sea. Now a prominent Israeli scholar, Rachel Elior, disputes that the Essenes ever existed at all — a claim that has shaken the bedrock of biblical scholarship...