Loading…

Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways between Qumran and Enochic Judaism is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

While historical determinism was a widely accepted concept in middle Judaism, what is distinctive in the sectarian documents of Qumran are the implications of cosmic dualism on the individual level.19 God “created the human [Heb. ʾnwš] to rule the world and placed [yśm] within him two spirits so that he would walk with them until the appointed time [mwʿd] of his visitation: they are the spirits of truth and deceit.… In these [two spirits] are the natures of all the sons of man, and in their (two)
Page 63
Buy this book at Logos.com