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In Beyond the Essene Hypothesis, respected scholar Gabriele Boccaccini offers readers a new and challenging view of the ideology of the Qumran sect—the community closely related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Boccaccini moves beyond the Essene hypothesis and posits a unique relationship between what he terms “Enochic Judaism” and the group traditionally known as the Essenes. Building his case on what...

Similitudes is the mature product of an anti-Qumranic Enochic stream that, drawing on the same ideological and literary background as the Dead Sea Scrolls, has now reached ideological and literary autonomy. While the redactional history of the Epistle of Enoch and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs is closely interwoven with the sectarian literature of Qumran, Similitudes is non-Qumranic more than anti-Qumranic. A gulf now separates the two movements. From this point on, interaction and exchange
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