QUMRAN ORIGINS: SOME REMARKS ON THE ENOCHIC/ESSENE HYPOTHESIS
This article discusses the Enochic/Essene hypothesis, which Gabriele Boccaccini advances in his monograph Beyond the Essene Hypothesis. In Boccaccini's model the Essenism of the ancient sources is to be equated with what modern scholars have identified, on the basis of extant documents, as Enoc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2001
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Revue de Qumran
Year: 2001, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 241-253 |
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| Summary: | This article discusses the Enochic/Essene hypothesis, which Gabriele Boccaccini advances in his monograph Beyond the Essene Hypothesis. In Boccaccini's model the Essenism of the ancient sources is to be equated with what modern scholars have identified, on the basis of extant documents, as Enochic Judaism, while the Qumran community is a radical, dissident, and marginal offshoot of this Essenism/Enochic Judaism. The present article compares this hypothesis with the traditional Essene hypothesis and with the Groningen hypothesis, with which it shares the view that the Qumran community is an offshoot of (rather than identical with) the Essene movement. It further investigates the implications of Boccaccini's thesis for our understanding of Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman period. |
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| ISSN: | 2506-7567 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Revue de Qumran
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