Endnote 23 – Was It an Essene Settlement?

Josephus, War 2.122: “They despise riches … in vain would one search among them for one man with a greater fortune than another”; Philo, Apologia pro Judaeis 4: “None of them can endure to possess anything of his own,” and 11: “All of them loving frugality and hating luxury as a plague for body and soul.”