Crossword-Solution: ESSENE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Essene | n. | One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESSENE (5)
Besides which, both John and Jesus seem to have begun their careers by preaching the un-Essene doctrine of the speedy advent of the "kingdom of heaven," by which is meant the reign of the Messiah upon the earth.
This excursion was led on by three men, who were the chief of them all, both for strength and sagacity; Niger, called the Persite, Silas of Babylon, and besides them John the Essene.
One of the more interesting conclusions concerning Jesus based on the Pepys Gospel Harmony (PGH) sequence is that Jesus was a North Palestinian Essene associated with the Damascus Covenant found at Qumran in Palestine and Genizah in Egypt.
Furthermore, it has been proposed that Jesus held the office of Messiah defined in the Damascus Covenant and His goal as well as that of the other Damascus Covenant Essenes was to convert the Pharisaical Jews of Judea which they viewed as the lost sheep of Israel to the Essene sect of Judaism.
And now you say you are an Essene—you, by Bacchus! you!” and he looked at her with an admiration which, although there was nothing brutal or even rude about it, was amusingly undisguised.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 275 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).