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The famous Jewish Historian FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, whose books "ANTIQUITIES

of the JEWS"and"WARS of the JEWS"provide most of what little we know about first

century Palestine, does indeed mention Jesus Christ...... He is so flowery in his praise

of Jesus that critics, until rather recently, have considered this passage to be an

"interpolation" put into the text by a later Christian copyist.... However, the passage is in

Josephus's usual style, and other passages confirm that Josephus knew the Essenes

well.....

From Josephus and other historians in Rome and elsewhere, we know that

Essenes were Environmentalists, able to farm the Judean Desert using irrigation techniques

and plants and grains adapted to such conditions..... They kept scores of date palms alive

at Qumran and nearby on land most considered to be worthless..... Date pits were found in

profusion when excavations were made in the early 1950's.... Aloe vera plants still grow

wild near Qumran, as do other herbs, perhaps with medicinal value......

There are no recipes in various Essene Scrolls now interpreted using meat or animal

products, but there are many instructions as to how to use vegetables..... And instructions as

to how to prepare grass-hoppers for human consumption.... These are listed as "Kosher"

in the Torah, and evidently were not considered as flesh meat!

Recently it has been demonstrated that the "Chitin", which makes up the hard, undigestable

shells of some sea-food and insects, when ground up and eaten along with animal fat foods,

can keep this fat from being digested, and protect people from Cancer and Heart Disease...

And, of course, the great American epidemic.... overweight....

One almost obvious reference to the Essenes is found in Luke 2:36-38, describing an

aged woman, "Anna, a prophetess", who had been a "widow" for 84 years, after living

with a husband for seven years..... Essene girls married young, perhaps about 16 years old,

but 16 + 7 + 84 makes 107 years old!... And still able to come to the temple every day,

and make prophecies!

Barbara Thiering shows in her book Jesus and the RIDDLE ofthe Dead Sea Scrolls

how we can tell that "Anna the Prophetess" was an Essene........ And there is really no

reason that we can't duplicate this LONGEVITY today...using the same methods the

Essenes did!