#231 The Essene Code - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In the last century, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls raised the profile of the ancient community of the Essenes. Do these discoveries debunk Christian ideas about Jesus?

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0:00.0	Who are the Essenes and how are they connected to the Dead Ski Scrolls next with Jimmy Aiken?
0:04.2	And don't forget to stay all the way to the very end. There's a surprise coming up. Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus I am Cy Kelle at your
0:16.8	host and we're joined again by Jimmy Aiken the author of The Bible is a
0:21.3	Catholic book among many other books and senior
0:23.5	apologist here at Catholic Answers and we're in the midst of a conversation or
0:27.7	several conversations about groups who were influential in the Jewish world
0:32.1	that Jesus operated in at Jewish world that Jesus
0:32.8	operated in at the time of Jesus.
0:35.0	This time, Jimmy, the scenes, and I have a problem with these
0:40.6	scenes.
0:42.0	What's your problem? Where are they in the New Testament? I can't find them.
0:45.3	They're not. They're not mentioned at least by name. They're not mentioned in the New Testament.
0:50.0	So they're much less known to most Christians than the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
0:58.2	They are mentioned though in a variety of historical sources.
1:03.0	Josephus, the Jewish historian from the late first century,
1:06.4	talks about them.
1:07.4	So does Fylo, the Jewish philosopher from Alexandria
1:11.5	who lived in the first century
1:13.0	BC and the first century AD.
1:16.0	He was a contemporary of Jesus.
1:17.0	Josephus lived just after Jesus.
1:19.0	He was born in AD 37.
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