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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...

(CD 16:2–4) shows that its composition precedes the flourishing of the sectarian literature of Qumran.13 The book of Jubilees stems from the same priestly party that produced the books of Enoch. Jubilees gives great importance to Enoch as a writer and a revealer (4:17ff.), and Enochic traditions play an important role in Jubilees.14 Most importantly, Jubilees shares the generative idea of Enochic Judaism, the idea that evil is superhuman and is caused by the sin of the Watchers (7:21ff.). The universe
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