The unknown years of Jesus generally refers to the period of Jesus's life between the accounts of his childhood and the beginning of his public ministry, for which the canonical gospels provide no det
12 year old Jesus talking with the learned sages of the Temple. Duccio, early 14th century.
Jesus in the workshop of Joseph the Carpenter, by Georges de La Tour, 1640s
The boy Jesus represented as the Good Shepherd; image above the North door of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
The Essenes or Essenians were a mystic Jewish community during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE.
Unknown years of Jesus
…years". For example, soon after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls novelist Edmund Wilson (1955) suggested that Jesus may have studied with the Essenes, followed by the Unitarian Charles F. Potter (1958) and others. Other writers have taken the view that the predominance of Pharisees in Judea during…
Remains of part of the main building at Qumran
The Genesis Apocryphon, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls