Mitch:

I do not think this is who Paul is referring to in Romans 2, since he argues later that one cannot keep the law and here he has Gentiles in mind who do so without the law. 

The Essenes do not appear in the NT because they had largely separated from the larger society and so were not a major factor in it.

dlb

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