Part Four: Matrimony, Celibacy, and the Scrolls Bergsma opens chapter 9 by noting the widespread fallacy that the ancient Jews did not practise celibacy (125), for the Essenes in fact […]
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Review, “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt IV)
Part Three: The Eucharist and the Scrolls (Part Two) This difference between the two calendars, whereby the Essenes celebrated it on Tuesday but “the Jews” four days later on Saturday, […]
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Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt III)
Part Three: The Eucharist and the Scrolls (Part One) Chapter 6 is titled: “Did Qumran Have a “Eucharist”?”, and commences with Justin Martyr, describing the Christian Eucharist about the year […]
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Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt II)
Part Two: Baptism and the Scrolls At the outset, Bergsma succinctly states why a connection between the Baptist and the Essenes seems probable: The Essenes were the only sect of […]
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Review: “Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John Bergsma (Pt I)
John Bergsma, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity, Image, New York, 2019 (256 pp.) … the fact that the Essenes, by their prayer and […]
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What Did Jesus Look Like?
This interesting hardcover book won’t tell you what the Lord looked like, but it will tell you five things about his appearance: (1) what he most probably wore; (2) what […]
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“John Who Saw”
There is a little-known, but very interesting book called John Who Saw by the English lawyer Adrian Howell North Green-Armytage (who must be deceased by now). It is admittedly a layman’s […]
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J.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part II)
Chapter VII of Newman’s Rise and Progress of Universities is titled “Athenian Schools: Influence.” This entire post is devoted to it, because Newman makes the invaluable point that we need virtue […]
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J.H. Newman, Rise and Progress of Universities (Part I)
In 2001, Gracewing and Notre Dame jointly published Rise and Progress of Universities and Benedictine Essays, being vol. III in the Birmingham Oratory Millennium Edition of the Works of Cardinal John Henry […]
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Amis and “A Different Christianity”
I recently came across a reference to Robin Amis’ book A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought, published in 1995 by the State University of New York Press. […]
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