First Century Mystic Crossword Clue

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	adjective • said of or relating to the Essenes noun • a member of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus
	23%	14		Religious texts dating from the third century BCE to the first century CE
	noun • (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s
	21%	6		Mystic who has attained liberation from the cycle of rebirth in Jainism
	noun • a Buddhist who has attained nirvana

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New York Times20 May 1993	Down 45
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