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The Essenes and Christianity: An Interpretation of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1957) is a non-fiction book by Duncan Howlett.

Abstract

"The first stage in the argument on the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls having passed, it is now time for the more balanced and careful consideration afforded by this book. When the Scrolls are allowed to speak for themselves; when they are laid side by side with the Old and New Testaments, Duncan Howlett shows that the origins of Christianity become clearer and that the result is to strengthen rather than to diminish Christian faith. What is the story of the people who wrote the Scrolls? How did they live? What drew them away from Jerusalem to the desert? How did they emerge from Traditional Judaism.How did they influence the beginnings of Christianity? In this book the answers to these questions are supplied as fully as recent research permits, and the reading is vastly illuminating. As the picture becomes clearer, it is revealed that the Essenes prepared the soil in which Christianity germinated, took root and enjoyed its first growth."--

Editions

Published in New York, NY: Harper & Bros., 1957.

Contents

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