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Beyond the Essene Hypothesis The Parting of the Ways Between Qumran and Enochic Judaism

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ISBN-10: 0802843603

ISBN-13: 9780802843609

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gabriele Boccaccini

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List price: $29.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Publication date: 3/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.814

Gabriele Boccaccini is Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Early Rabbinic Literature at the University of Michigan, USA.

Preface
Abbreviations and Sigla
Introduction: Beyond the Essene Hypothesis
The Calm after the Storm
Historiographical Analysis and Systemic Analysis
Moving Forward: From the Essene Hypothesis to the Enochic/Essene Hypothesis
Historiographical Analysis
The Essenes in Ancient Historiography
First-Century Jewish and Non-Jewish Sources
Location, Extent, and Antiquity of the Essenes
Communal Ownership
Marriage and Celibacy
Summary: The Palestinian Communities and the Community of the Dead Sea
Systemic Analysis
The Prehistory of the Sect
The "Qumran Library"
The Sectarian Texts of the Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Pre-Maccabean Texts in the Qumran Library: Enochic and Zadokite Documents
The Formative Age
Daniel and the Book of Dream Visions
The Book of Jubilees
The Temple Scroll (11QT)
The Proto-Epistle of Enoch, Including the Apocalypse of Weeks
The Halakhic Letter (4QMMT)
The Schism between Qumran and Enochic Judaism
The Damascus Document (CD)
Sectarian Censorship
Enochic Documents Unknown at Qumran; or, Enoch vs. Qumran
Sectarian Documents in Context; or, Qumran vs. Enoch
Sectarian Documents outside Qumran
Summary: A Bifurcation in the Chain of Enochic Documents
Comparative Analysis
Conclusion: The Enochic/Essene Hypothesis
Enochic Judaism and Essene Judaism
Common Roots: Both Moses and Enoch
Common Ideology: Rejection of Individual Predestination
Common Sociology: Diverse People, Yet Not Set Apart
A Composite Picture of the Enochic/Essene Movement
Summary: The Enochic/Essene Hypothesis and Its Implications
Bibliography: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism
From Late Judaism to Middle Judaisms
General Introductions to the History and Religion of Second Temple Judaism
Studies on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
Studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls
Indexes
Main Subjects
Ancient Sources
Modern Interpreters