Endnote 18 - Did the Essenes Write the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Josephus, Against Apion 2.145–286.
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Josephus, Against Apion 2.145–286.
Josephus, War 2.161.
The different arguments are cited in Taylor, “Philo of Alexandria on the Essenes.”
Josephus, War 2.119–125.
Josephus, War 2.150.
Yadin, The Message of the Scrolls, p. 127.
Josephus, War 2.123.
Josephus, War 2.126–127, 133–134.
See Jodi Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cambridge, U.K.: William B. Eerdmans, 2002), and Jean-Baptiste Humbert and Alain Chambon, Fouilles de Khirbet Qumran et de Ain Feshkha, vol. 1 (Editions Universitaires Fribourg Suisse, 1994), photographs 148–151, p. 75 (“Aucun doute, c’est fosse d’aisance”).
Josephus, War 2.128, 148.