Behind the Essenes : history and ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls /
by Philip R. Davies ; managing editor, Michael L. Satlow
- Open access edition
- Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, [2020]
- 1 online resource (155 pages)
- Brown judaic studies ; 94 .
- Brown Judaic studies ; no. 94. .
"This edition incorporates typographical corrections of the original text."--Publishers preface "Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso "Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives."--T.p. verso
Introduction -- Qumran beginnings -- CD and the history of the Essenes: a reconsideration in light of criticism -- Sons of Zadok -- Marriage and the Essenes -- History and hagiography: the life of the "teacher" in hymn and Pesher -- A comparison of three Essene texts.