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#321 Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls - John Bergsma

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John the Baptist Diet Illuminated by Luke 180

He can only eat unprepared food, right? Because that was the wording. It's a loophole, you know, in the way that the vow was or the oath was not to eat food prepared. But of course it really constricts your diet. All right. So John the Baptist diet illuminated by what else is illuminated by the another thing about John the Baptist. You know, there's this there's this odd comment at the end of the first chapter of Luke. The Essenes lived out in the desert and they took in orphans and raised them just like monasteries did in Europe during the Middle Ages. That would explain why he'sout in the desert. He's being formed

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