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    Introduction

    Dear all, and individual reader, Great to encounter a forum like this, in which many people and diverse subjects can be spoken about openly. I feel lots of subjects deserve the right questions: and all of our individual attention and contemplation with it. But first a small introduction: I'm...
  2. Zosimos Eremitic

    Greetings

    I came here to share my Christian/Jewish short stories with the forum. I'll be posting mostly in the Creative Writing section. I hope you enjoy. Here is my first work which I posted here - The Nazarene and the Rabbi
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    The Nazarene and the Rabbi

    I posted a short story here on the Creative Writing forum. I thought you all might enjoy it. Hopefully it isn't too inaccurate. The Nazarene and the Rabbi
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    The Nazarene and the Rabbi

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    Discoveries in the Judaean Desert - All 40 Volumes

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    Was John the Baptist an Essene?

    John the Baptist is an enigmatic figure, the Forerunner, the Voice in the wilderness. I have often seen it claimed nowadays that he was an Essene. Now there is some evidence in its favour: 1. He baptised in water. The Essenes practised immersion as well. Both seem to have expected purity...
  7. Hoshiyya

    Differences between Paul and Qumran theology on the issue of "works of the law"

    GALATIANS 1:13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. (NKJV)...