There is a hint of this in Essene's account of Lassik war stories (1942, p. 91).
The twelve chosen were all Jews, probably of the Essene order.
We have stated Christ may have been an Essene either by birth or by conversion.
In the Essene monasteries, as in the Buddhist, there was no life vow.
The author says that all this is pure nihilism, and Essene communism.
Like the Essene, the Buddhist monk was not forced to remain for life.
I am Enoch the Essene, a holy one, a perfect keeper of the law.
An Essene, but one that was seldom in the cenoby, more often to be met on the hills with his flocks.
If a man be dying the Essene, by his rule, must succour him, Paul said.
But I know not, the Essene answered, that any man be dying in the brook.
1550s, member of a Jewish sect (first recorded 2c. B.C.E.), from Latin, from Greek Essenoi, of disputed etymology, perhaps from Hebrew tzenum "the modest ones," or Hebrew hashaim "the silent ones." Klein suggests Syriac hasen, plural absolute state of hase "pious."
