The Woman Question and Female Ascetics among Essenes
Were not the Essenes at Qumran celibate males? The presumption of a celibate male population on the shores of the Dead Sea continues to rule scholarly imaginations. But what about the skeletons of females in the cemeteries? And what about the textual references to liturgies involving women? Do not a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Scholars Press
1994
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1994, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 220-234 |
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| Summary: | Were not the Essenes at Qumran celibate males? The presumption of a celibate male population on the shores of the Dead Sea continues to rule scholarly imaginations. But what about the skeletons of females in the cemeteries? And what about the textual references to liturgies involving women? Do not all the signs point to the presence of female ascetics at Qumran? |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210431 |