Essene sources and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
The last counsels of the twelve sons of Jacob on virtue and the inner life.
About this library
This text is one of the public-domain editions kept in the free reference library of the Modern Order of Essenes, alongside the earliest accounts of the Essenes, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the saints, mystics and yogis of later ages. Students of the course read them beside the Gnostic Lessons, so that each teaching is seen in the light of its roots.
The course itself is free and self-paced, with a teacher to answer your questions. See how the course works or write to begin.
On the same shelf
- Ancient Witnesses to the Essenes Philo of Alexandria, Flavius Josephus and Pliny the Elder
- The Damascus Document Fragments of a Zadokite Work, ed. Solomon Schechter, 1910
- The Book of Enoch Translated by R. H. Charles, 1917
- The Book of Jubilees Translated by R. H. Charles, 1917
- First, Second and Third Maccabees, with Psalm 151 From Brenton’s English Septuagint, 1844