The Essenes, the scrolls, and the Dead Sea /

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal and isolated. Scholarly consensus has held that an Essene library was hidden ahead of the Ro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Joan E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Dead Sea scrolls.
Qumrantexte
Essenes.
Excavations (Archaeology) > West Bank > Qumran Site.
Esséniens.
Fouilles (Archéologie) > Cisjordanie > Qumrān (Site archéologique)
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Essener
Essenen.
Dode-Zeerollen.
Godsdienstige bewegingen.
West Bank > Qumran Site.
Qumran.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The Essenes in ancient literature
  • 'A peculiar problem' : a short history of scholarship on the Essenes
  • Philo of Alexandria
  • Josephus
  • The Herodians of the Gospel of Mark
  • Pliny
  • Dio Chrysostom, Synesius, and Julius Solinus
  • Christian and Jewish writings from the second to fifth centuries
  • Conclusions : the essential Essenes
  • Part II. The Dead Sea, the Essenes, and the scrolls
  • The history of the Dead Sea
  • Essenes beside the Dead Sea : Qumran
  • The Dead Sea scrolls
  • 'Roots, remedies and properties of stones' : Dead Sea healing
  • General conclusions.

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