the dead sea scrolls are usually thought to have been produced by a group known as the essenes. and the essenes are a group that literally abandoned jerusalem, it seems, in protest against the way the temple was being run. and they go to the desert to get away from what they see to be the worldliness of jerusalem and the worldliness of the temple. >> the manual of discipline, or in hebrew, sera-hayachad, envisages a community living in almost total isolation, a community that is self- contained, that is governed very strictly. there is an oath of entry. it is very much a monastic community. x the congregation of the elect must pledge himself to live according to the rule of theo community, to love all the children of light, and to hate all the children of darkness." >> the essenes are what we might best call an apocalyptic sect of judaism. an apocalyptic sect is one that? thinks of itself as, first of all, the true form of the religion. yt >> by apocalyptic expectation, i mean that some group has a... an apocalupsis in greek-- a revelation that god is going to finally solve the

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one such sect, the essenes, were apocalyptic jews who lived in the desert by the dead sea.scovered in the caves of kumron in 1948, we suddenly gained startling new clues about jesus' own spiritual roots. >> we have from kumron just a small bit of a manuscript that shows us that there were other jews, just before the time of jesus, who were waiting for a messiah who would exert miraculous and healing power, and who would also have the power to raise the dead. jesus embraces that messianic expectation. >> and it began with a baptism, as the gospels tell us, performed by the man who tradition and scholarship say was jesus' cousin and boyhood friend. john the baptist lived in the wilderness wearing camel skins, eating locusts and wild honey, and baptizing people in the jordan river to cleanse them of their sins. this was a radical new spin on the jewish purification bath. john was turning an ancient ritual into a new sacrament. >> john the baptist. he recognized jesus at the baptism. and he said, this is the man i've been waiting for, this is the person i'm preparing the way fo

in essen, millions of americans is on their insurance plans canceled because there were deemed inadequatebamacare are now allowed to replace those canceled plans with something even more inadequate and more bare bones. by some accounts the obama administration making its 23rd change to obamacare, to the law, the affordae care act without a congressional vote on a single amendment. this comes as and other top federal technologg official warns that a high security risks have been discored on the obamacare website in just recent weeks. chief information's security officer at cms telling congressional investitors thaa she recommended against launching the website because of high risks and exposure to cyber attacks. the warnings came just ten days before the launch and challenged hhs secretary kathleen sibila as to has insisted throughout that senior officials did not advise a delay at all despite security concerns. the final work day of the year on capitol hill marked by a health care for the senate majority leader. harry reid absent today after being hospitalized early this morning. the 74-y

yones von essen, who only began competing a year ago.i asked him what was his system. >> nine, four, that's a guy that i know with a lot of hair, and then six, two, it's teaching, you see this guy teem teaching and five, one, it's skulls and he's teaching skulls. >> and you've memorized what's your marks? >> i managed 2280. >> 2280? >> yeah. >> wow! >> yes, it's quite a lot of images. but since you only have to post one image santa time in one place, it doesn't feel like so much work when you're doing it. >> so there's really only one thing to remember. practice, practice, practice, paul brennan, al jazeera. >> extraordinary now, back to folly in doha. >> thank you very much. one of the multimillion dollar scandal that has cost more than a third of the budget. protest against government mismanagement. reporting from the capital of malawi. >> millions of u.s. dollars are missing from the country's budget many given to the government by international aid donors. many from now who have stopped giving money to the country. >> the donors have

at's essenally that she was nervous she would be misunderstood for what happened there, they wouldn'tas an accident. sunny, you think this is more of a slam-dunk in this case. however, no one saw it happen. there's noideo camera footage of her pushing him off the mountain. is that tough for the prosecution? >> it isn't. i never like to say a case ace slam-dunk and i know geragos is going to come back at me and say i'm being crazy. but thiss the kind of case where you argue who does that? who behaves this way? when the jury looks at the kind of behavior she exhibited, she pushes her husband off the cliff with both hands she says and then just leaves him there. he could have been suffering, anything. leaves him there, drives home and then starts lying. starts making all ofhese things up and then leads her friends to his body but yet still lies about what happened. the argument that it's an accident is just so unbelievable, so incomprehensible that i can't imagine that a jury is goi to get her get away with it. and if she takes the witness stand, mark geragos, you've got to admit this ju

he was talking about a series of votes on nominees that he himself has set up since he is the -- in essen essence, the traffic cop for the senate and he gets to set the agenda unilaterally. but we know that while the majority leader has set up this series of votes on nominations, none of which are urgent and couldn't be done in january, none of which -- and all of which are controversial, the majority leader is refusing to allow any vote on restoring pension benefits to the men and women of the united states armed services. as we've talked about repeatedly over the last couple of days, the recent budget deal cuts their pension benefits by some $6 billion over 10 years. and we've learned that this agreement slashes the pension benefits of some of our wounded warriors, people who are medically retired. senator murray, the senator from washington, the distinguished chairman of the senate budget committee, has called this a technical error. a technical error. and she says it needs to be fixed but we'll do this next year. merry christmas, to our wounded warriors whose pensions are by virtue of

back to miss anne and sister, no, you are not allowed to do this tonight we going to fall back on essen'sand biology in the sure of it we no longer believe that. we believe, the weak and that raises a social construction. we don't believe that raises blood of biology orisons. and ms. -- miss anne said, if greece is a social construction because this is the 1920's when an idea is being developed, she pushed the limits. she said, if race is a social construction, and i'm black. hyland said, of. [laughter] your mess. we weren't ready for that. and i think we are still struggling with that question today which is not to say she is in cringe ready, but it is to say, what is our answer back meant what we say to someone who says that? >> i think that's a good place to bring the audience into the discussion. questions? i think there is a microphone coming around. >> yes. the blood being asked to use a microphone for c-span. >> my approach to new york university. my question is exactly to your last point. and thinking of. >> i am not the host from new york university. my question goes exactly to t