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Urim & Thummin is found in Exodus 28:30 "In the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart when he goes in before the LORD; thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the Israelites on his heart before the LORD continually."...NRSV

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The Essenes had a different calender of 364 days based on the Sun. " The first day of the year and each season began on a Wednesday."Passover, the fifteenth day of the first month, was always celebrated on a Wednesday; the Feast of Weeks, the fifteenth day of the third month, always on a S...

@Robert Tulip,

Did the Essenes leave any Dead Sea Scrolls that support your view?

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John T

Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven . Jer. 10:2. The Marcionites are very strongly addicted to astrology. Tertullian (c. 207, W), 3.284. In the scheme of Marcion,...the mystery of the Christian religion begins from the discipleship of Luke....On finding t...

IMHO, The Nabataean (Aramaic off-shoot) version of Mark was written in the mid 30's. The more popular Greek version was written very shortly after the suicide of Nero around 68 A.D. Of course the oral Aramaic/Essene tradition of Mark started in 30 A.D. Be as that may, when it was written is not as i...

I know there is no point in beating a dead horse so, this will be the last time to try to convince Peter that, it is not I that has gone off the rails but Freke & Gandy. The link below is a video, (very well put together) on mythicism/gnosticism. Go the the 52 minute mark and watch/listen as Fre...