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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...

Jubilees reflects this new climate, after the last of the Oniads fled to Egypt23 and the house of Zadok was definitely out of the picture. While the Maccabees had created the political framework, Daniel had, quite unwillingly, ideologically opened the path for a harmonization between Enochic and Mosaic traditions. Daniel testifies to an apocalyptic circle that aimed to subordinate the principles of Enochic Judaism into a revised form of covenantal Judaism; the terms of its compromise, however, could
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