Davies, Philip R.,

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.

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Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls.


Essenes.
Essenes.


Electronic books.
e-books.

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