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Open access edition |
| Description |
1 online resource (155 pages) |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Brown judaic studies ; 94 |
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Brown Judaic studies ; no. 94.
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| Note |
"This edition incorporates typographical corrections of the original text."--Publishers preface |
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"Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program."--T.p. verso |
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"Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives."--T.p. verso |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Qumran beginnings -- CD and the history of the Essenes: a reconsideration in light of criticism -- Sons of Zadok -- Marriage and the Essenes -- History and hagiography: the life of the "teacher" in hymn and Pesher -- A comparison of three Essene texts. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (BJS, viewed May 26, 2022). |
| Summary |
A collection of essays by Philip Davies on aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls. While composed to stand along, together these essays create a strong synthetic argument about the Essenes and the production of the Dead Sea Scrolls that remains important and challenging to the present day. |
| Subject |
Dead Sea scrolls.
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Dead Sea scrolls
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Essenes.
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Esséniens.
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Judaism.
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Essenes
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| Indexed Term |
Judaism |
| Genre/Form |
e-books.
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Livres numériques.
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| Added Author |
Satlow, Michael L., editorial director.
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Brown University. Program in Judaic Studies, publisher.
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National Endowment for the Humanities, sponsoring body.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, sponsoring body.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Behind the Essenes. Atlanta, Georgia : Scholars Press, 1987- 9781555401405 (OCoLC)15588709 |
| ISBN |
9781946527219 (electronic bk.) |
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1946527211 (electronic bk.) |
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9781946527479 (electronic bk.) |
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1946527475 (electronic bk.) |
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9781946527226 |
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9781946527479 |
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