THE ULTIMATE ART: Essays Around and About Opera

THE ULTIMATE ART: Essays Around and About Opera

immersion. Moreover, both the early Christians and the Es- senes expected the Messiah to appear imminently. One scroll, "The Messiah of Heaven and Earth," clearly alludes to the idea of bodily resurrection.
So much from the scrolls seems dear, but a number of questions they raise have no ready an- swers: Was John the Baptist a member of the com- munity that wrote the scrolls? Was Jesus, in fact, an Essene? Is the "Temple Scroll" the lost sixth book of the Torah? Taken together,...

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