RT Article
T1 L' origine des esséniens... et Qumrân
JF Judaïsme ancien
VO 3
SP 15
OP 62
A1 Nodet, Étienne 1944-
LA French
PB Brepols
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1578006724
AB The Qumran Essenes are “sons of Zadok”, so they have the same name as the Sadducees, in spite of obvious differences. An assessment of some texts (Ben Sira, legal DSS, Josephus) allows us to suggest that they are both faces of the same coin, of Egyptian origin and with the same calendar : both endeavored to renew the authority of Scripture in the second half of the 2nd century BC. First the Sadducees, a Judean movement, strove to challenge the popular Pharisean traditions, of Babylonian origin and faithful to the lunar calendar ; a major Qumran document is connected with them (4QMMT). Then came the Essenes, who kept a local angelology and imported from Egypt a way of life that can be termed Pythagorean, broadly speaking ; this led them, with the belief in the immortality of souls, to reshape Biblical eschatology. They took Zadok as an eponym, because he was the high priest who according to tradition revealed to David the written Law (Tora), which was hidden in the Ark since the death of Eleazar and Joshua.
DO 10.1484/J.JAAJ.5.103820