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Footnote 1 - What’s a Massa?

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D. often used in scholarly literature.

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Footnote 3 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part One

See Otto Betz, “Was John the Baptist an Essene?” BR 06:06.

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Footnote 2 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part One

B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era), used by this author, are the alternate designations corresponding to B.C. and A.D. often used in scholarly literature.

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Footnote 1 - The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Christianity: Part One

The scrolls were found in caves adjacent to an ancient settlement above Wadi Qumran on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. A wadi is a dry riverbed or valley that flows occasionally after a rain; a perennial stream is called a wadi as well.

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Footnote 1 - Greek for Bible Readers

For further support of this view, see my “The Weak in Thessalonica: A Study in Pauline Lexicography,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 25 (1982), pp. 307–321.