Jesus and the Mystery of the Dead Sea

Jesus''s father, Joseph, was a descendant of Israel''s King David, as the genealogies in the New Testament Bible make known, and also incidentally of Mary, his mother, only by a different one of King David''s sons. Jesus was of the Essene denomination of Jews, not the Pharisees or Sadducees, and this connection had been noticed in that his brother, James, was said to have worn garments of white li...