Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls
Edition: New edition
Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521609418
Subjects: Judaism; Sacred texts; Judaism - General; Essenes; Religion - Judaism; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Knowledge; Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - General; Bibles - Hebrew; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; Religion; Religion / Bibles / Hebrew; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion-Bible - Criticism  Interpretation - General; Religion-Bibles - Hebrew; Dead Sea scrolls; Historiography; Josephus, Flavius
First sentence: Prior to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, information concerning the pre-Christian Jewish sect of the Essenes was limited to the testimony of various Greek and Latin writers, only three of whom (Philo, Pliny, and Josephus) were contemporaneous with the group.1