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Endnote 12 - What Jesus Learned from the Essenes
Joseph A. Fitzmyer, Divorce Among First-Century Jews, Eretz Israel 14 (1978), pp. 103110; Marriage and Divorce, Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), vol. 1, pp. 512513. But both the Temple Scroll (11 QT 59.4-5) and a newly published manuscript of the Damascus Document (CD 13.16-17) mention divorce.
Endnote 11 - What Jesus Learned from the Essenes
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In the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5, it is the poor in spirit instead of simply the poor, as in Luke. I believe it can be shown that the two describe the same condition of material poverty. Poor in spirit does not mean dumb, but just the opposite: those who have been endowed with the spirit.
