Were the Essenes the people who raised MARY and JESUS?

Question

If they were, where did they come from?
Were they originally from Egypt?
What religion did they profess BEFORE they raised MARY and JESUS?

Answer 1

Most likely.

Jesus' message was steeped in Essene thought.
John the Baptist was almost certainly an Essene, and he was related to Christ in both blood and message.

Answer 2

The Essenes were a small religious community that began during the time of the Maccabean Revolt, around 250 BC. They lived in the desert, away from most other people, and were the Jewish equivalent of the Waco Branch Davidians, or the Randy Weaver White Supremist. They were not a popular or accepted group, nor did they represent the mainstream teachings of the Jews.

They had been on the decline since around 150BC, and probably numbered 100-150 members at the time of Jesus and John.

The Essenes would probably not even be known today except for the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among the manuscripts found there were several manuals on disciple and lifestyle within the communityl, on a history of the group. It is unclear whether the Essenes producted and stored the Dead Sea Scrolls, or whether some of their books had simply added to the library maintained by another group - probably of Pharisees. The cave in which is the manuscripts were found is located about 65 miles away from the Essense community - a long distance across a desert before you had cars, etc.

Neither Mary or Jesus are placed in the area of the Essense at any time in the Bible. They lived in northwest Judea, and the Essense were in southeast Israel over a thousand miles away. While John the Baptist did baptise in their region at one point, there is nothing in scripture that connects him with the group. Nor is John (or Jesus or Mary) mentioned in any of their writings or histories. There is no mention of the Christian faith or doctrines in their writings.

The Essense were destroyed in 73AD, when the Romans drove the last of Jewish from Israel. The remaining members of the group are believed to have killed themselves and their children to avoid being driven from their community.

Answer 3

The Essenes were one of the religious groups of that day along with the Pharisees and Saducees and the Zealots and a few more. There were a religious "denomination" if you want to put it into contemporary language. No, Mary Joseph and Jesus plus His brothers and sisters were a family and Mary and Joseph raised the kids like most parents do.

Answer 4

No it is only concept,the extra familiar reasoning ability that John the Baptist had an extensive courting with the Essene community,one factor to recollect is that Jesus might have rebuked the Pharisee`s at cases yet He totally enjoyed the Temple as His Fathers abode or maybe observed the regulation whilst it did no longer deviate from purity,.

Answer 5

They were extremely religious Jews who lived during and BC. They were the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls and I have never heard of them raising neither Mary nor Jesus. Idon't beliueve they had contact with women. They were with the Jews when trhey faught Roman legions when the Jews excaped to Masada, a hilltop fortress that had once been the summer home of King Herod. in the Judean desert.

Answer 6

Based on Christian theology I am convinced either Jesus or Paul was an Essene. The Theology is to apocalyptic to be from any other Judaic group

Answer 7

No, the Essenes were closer to the Dead See, Mary and Jesus were native to Nazareth.

Answer 8

--No neither Jesus or Mary or John the Baptizer had any dealings with them:

*** g89 5/22 pp. 20-21 Part 10—537 B.C.E. onward—Still Awaiting a Messiah ***

Negligent Shepherds and Religious Disunity

".........The Essenes, another religious group, apparently developed during the same time. They broke with the official priesthood, refrained from taking part in religious services and sacrifices at the temple, but otherwise closely adhered to the Law. Like the Pharisees, to whom they were in many ways similar, they fell victim to Hellenistic influence, adopting belief in an immortal soul.

The group probably had no more than about 4,000 members, all male adults, many of whom were celibate. They lived in communal houses in isolated communities throughout Palestine. The Encyclopædia Judaica speaks of their supposed pacifism, saying that it “was probably like that of the modern Jehovah’s Witnesses.” But it is evident that the Essenes did not really practice the strict neutrality today observed by Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Jewish Pictorial Biblical Encyclopedia says that the Essenes “fought heroically in the rebellion against Rome, some leaders even coming from their ranks.” Jewish historian Josephus refers to one such leader—a certain “John the Essene” who served as a Jewish general in the revolt of 66 C.E.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in 1947, provide information about the Qumran religious sect, thought by some scholars to be identical with the Essenes. But as to the suggestion that John the Baptizer and Jesus belonged to this group, or were at least influenced by it, The New Encyclopædia Britannica says: “Important arguments . . . speak against this assumption.” There are “fundamental differences between the Qumran sect and John the Baptist . . . [as well as] diametrical differences between the views of the sect and the range of Jesus’ ministry, his message of salvation, his understanding of God’s will . . . and, especially, the radical character of his commandment of love and his fellowship with sinners and social outcasts.”

In reality, every Jewish religious faction opposed John the Baptizer and the one he announced as being the Messiah. Instead of giving credence to John’s message, many of the priests, Josephus says, turned to the Zealots, a group of Jewish revolutionaries bent on self-determination. For decades groups like this, opposed to the Roman domination that had replaced Greece in 63 B.C.E., carried on terrorist activity. Finally in 66 C.E., they broke into open rebellion. This led to the destruction of the Jewish temple and their priesthood. The Messianic hope dimmed........".

Answer 9

Why would paul get to have that title- he wasnt even a desciple of jesus and had a brush off with the desciples of jesus after his departure. not sure how religious he was as a jew in BC

Answer 10

There were raised by GOD.