Just as Mark used Josephus’ description of the siege of Jerusalem to inform the “prophecies” of Jesus Christ, so too he used Josephus’ description of the Jewish sect of Essenes to give Christ a life story.
The Essenes were not “Jewish”, that’s a big misconception and something that’s been shoved down our throats for many years. Josephus describes them as being “in no way different than the Dacians…” That’s the critical piece of information that’s been suppressed, and continues to be suppressed to this day, as a simple google search can confirm. They translate that passage in any way possible (mostly using ‘Dacae’ for Dacians) in order to confuse but, as Joan E. Taylor has conclusively proven in “The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea”, it can only mean “Dacians”. As for what the hell were the Dacians (present-day Romanians) doing there in those times, see Eugen Lozovan’s work (Dacia Sacra etc). The implications here are mind-boggling if you take them to their natural conclusion.
Philo of Alexandria has a whole treatise on the Therapeutae in Egypt of whom the Essenes in Palestine were thought to be a sect. Philo goes into detail about their lifestyle and practices, especially, as their name indicates, their healing abilities and practices. The gospels show Jesus to be nothing if not a healer. My own research has led me to conclude that the gospels' Jesus is based on Paul's teaching and on the tradition of the Righteous Teacher, who led the Essenes a 100 years before the gospels until he was executed by the Jewish authorities. And, for what it's worth, clairvoyants (today usually referred to as remote viewers) also don't find Jesus in the 1st century AD, but in the 2nd BC.
I had to look that up, and I was mistaken; the Teacher (that Michael Wise in The First Messiah calls "Judah") had escaped attempts to kill him and after his trial, instead of being stoned to death, according to the law, was instead, as per Roman example, exiled permanently. Also, I recall that the Dead Sea Scrolls also talk about a great teacher who on a trip to the Jewish temple in On, Egypt, was murdered. Some think he could have been the Righteous Teacher.
The Essenes were not “Jewish”, that’s a big misconception and something that’s been shoved down our throats for many years. Josephus describes them as being “in no way different than the Dacians…” That’s the critical piece of information that’s been suppressed, and continues to be suppressed to this day, as a simple google search can confirm. They translate that passage in any way possible (mostly using ‘Dacae’ for Dacians) in order to confuse but, as Joan E. Taylor has conclusively proven in “The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea”, it can only mean “Dacians”. As for what the hell were the Dacians (present-day Romanians) doing there in those times, see Eugen Lozovan’s work (Dacia Sacra etc). The implications here are mind-boggling if you take them to their natural conclusion.
Philo of Alexandria has a whole treatise on the Therapeutae in Egypt of whom the Essenes in Palestine were thought to be a sect. Philo goes into detail about their lifestyle and practices, especially, as their name indicates, their healing abilities and practices. The gospels show Jesus to be nothing if not a healer. My own research has led me to conclude that the gospels' Jesus is based on Paul's teaching and on the tradition of the Righteous Teacher, who led the Essenes a 100 years before the gospels until he was executed by the Jewish authorities. And, for what it's worth, clairvoyants (today usually referred to as remote viewers) also don't find Jesus in the 1st century AD, but in the 2nd BC.
Who or what says the righteous teacher was executed?
I had to look that up, and I was mistaken; the Teacher (that Michael Wise in The First Messiah calls "Judah") had escaped attempts to kill him and after his trial, instead of being stoned to death, according to the law, was instead, as per Roman example, exiled permanently. Also, I recall that the Dead Sea Scrolls also talk about a great teacher who on a trip to the Jewish temple in On, Egypt, was murdered. Some think he could have been the Righteous Teacher.