A Reconsideration of the Name "Essene" in Greco-Jewish Literature in Light of Recent Perceptions of the Qumran Sect
Almost all of the proposals for the origin of the terms essaioi and essēnoi used by Philo and Josephus have been based on the assumption that it was derived from some Semitic term. This paper suggests that all of those proposals have been found wanting. It is proposed that we should rather look at t...
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| Language: | English |
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HUC
1987
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Hebrew Union College annual
Year: 1986, Volume: 57, Pages: 61-81 |
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