A friend gave me an article to read about a different Hebrew calendar (which I shall not name). It's off the calculated calendar by 8 days. Folks, the calendar can be off the calculated by a day or two either way, or by a whole month, but a week or two is impossible. #smh

This calendar is supposedly derived from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The article never actually quoted the DSS, but hey, who's counting. Something to realize about the Dead Sea Scrolls is that they come from a library we all want to be able to read but we would never blindly adopt the practices of those who held the library.

Just like we wish the library at Alexandria was never burnt down, we would never blindly adopt the beliefs and practices of those who kept that library, either. The same holds true with the DSS.

The Essenes existed at the time of Yeshua and are not mentioned in the New Testament at all. Josephus is the place to look if you want to know about them. Some of their practices are reasonable, others extreme. But the fact that they existed when Yeshua walked the earth, were contemporaries with the Pharisees and Sadducees, but are completely omitted from the Bible, means they are irrelevant to our faith.

Any doctrine you encounter that contradicts the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint needs to be rejected. Those two sources are remarkably aligned.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ. For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.
(2Co 11:3-4)