Professor James VanderKam, a Dead Sea Scroll scholar, proposes that “the Essenes who lived at Qumran were just a small part of the larger Essene movement, ” which Josephus numbered at about four thousand.
प्लीनी के मुताबिक इसीन के लोग यरीहो और एनगदी के बीच, मृत सागर के पास रहते थे ।