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Excerpt from Ecce Orienti!: An Epitome of the History of the Ancient Essenes, Their Rites and Ceremonies, Followed by the Ritual of the Modern Order of Essenes
When they ultimately withdrew from the rest of the Jewish nation, the majority of them settled in Samaria, along the Jordan, and the rest lived in scattered communities throughout Palestine.
Both Philo and Josephus mention them as being very numerous at this time.
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