From: harwood@umiacs.umd.edu (David Harwood)
Subject: Re: Essene New Testament
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
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[William Christie asked about the Essene NT.
Andrew Kille reponded
>There is a collection of gospels which usually goes under the name of the
>"Essene Gospel of Peace."  These are derived from the gnostics, not the
>essenes, and are ostensibly translations from syriac texts of the fourth 
>and fifth centuries (I vaguely recall; I can't find my copy right now).
--clh]

There had been recent criticism of this in a listserv for academic
Biblical scholars: they all say the book(s) are modern fakes.
D.H.
