Essence Book of Everyday Virtues

More than two thousand years ago, the Essenes, or Sons of Light, as they called themselves, fled the opulence of Jerusalem and sequestered themselves in a desert stronghold at Qumran. By the end of the first century CE this ancient utopian sect had disappeared, but the Dead Sea Scrolls library they created and secreted away in limestone caves survived intact and were rediscovered in 1947. In the