Essenes

Essenes are Jewish just like Jesus. They believe that any pleasure is bad; they don’t engage in marriage because they think that a woman cannot be faithful to one man, but they agree that people can get married. They despise rich people and believe that everyone should be equal financially; they are all equal because it’s their law and they share everything that they have with each other. They are hard working men, so, to them, being sweaty is a good thing. When they travel to remote places, the only things that they carry with them are weapons to fight off thieves. Before sunrise they pray the prayers that their forefathers have for them and they don’t speak any profane matters. After they get done praying they go out and exercise their arts and skills; they use their…

level of the lake lowered, some channels of water eroded in the soft rock dried out, forming caves. The caves were either small or covered over, so an entrance had to be dug out. This factor made the caves desired hiding places for treasures people wanted to keep hidden. In the caves, tightly sealed jars were found containing tightly rolled manuscripts. Out of forty jars only two were found intact (A. Powell Davies). The site of Qumran is believed to be close to the home of the Essenes.…

New Testament Sadducees, are descendants from Hasmonean families (Middendorf 50). The Sadducees are from the known parts of Jerusalem (Middendorf 50). They belong to the upper classes of Israel and are high priestly families (The Jewish Religious System). The Sadducees are leaders in the Jewish culture, yet rejected all supernatural objectives. They did not believe in the “popular beliefs of angels, spirits, and the resurrection of the dead” (Middendorf 50). The Sadducees had talked with…

until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is from the Dead Sea Scrolls that their existence was made available. The Essenes were a semi-monastic and separatist community, and they would have been the recorders and preservers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Essenes lived ascetic lives. They denied themselves the pleasures and luxuries of the world system. They lived alone in tents and some in caves. Some Essenes lived like monks in monasteries and denied themselves money, and women. No…

occupation by the Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Syrians, and Romans, the Jews’ ideologies evolved resulting in the development of four unique parties: the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots in the New Testament period which had differing views on how to live in a world ruled by Gentiles. In Jerusalem, the Sadducees were the priests of the Second Jewish Temple and had wealth and power because of their status and affiliation with the Roman Empire during the first century. They believed…

three main sects of Judaism that were present within his lifetime: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. Throughout his different works he offers many descriptions of these different sects. He describes the Pharisees in the most detail, likely because he asserts that the Pharisees drew much support from the common man and that he himself was once a Pharisee (Antiquities 13.10.5). It is useful to help understand these three sects by considering the form of government most closely related…

1st century Palestine was a special time for the Jewish faith, after the death of Jesus, and as much as they didn't like it Christianity was on the rise. However this wasn't the only thing, Judaism at this time was spawning all new sub-genres of faith. They split into four groups: The Pharisees, The Sadducees, The Zealots, and The Essenes. They all believed in YHWH, but they had different ideas and ways of how to praise him. The Pharisees, which translates to separated ones in Hebrew, are known…

Most notably, within traditional writings it is firstly a case of non-materialism alongside this egalitarian society hypothesised by both Philo and Josephus in sects such as the Pharisees, Essenes and Fourth Philosophy that can arguably also live and co-exist harmoniously when being practiced by a single person. The most common area agreed on by both contemporary and modern scholars is, however, the resilience of Jews and their ability to adapt. I find that by completely discarding the…

The Jewish museum follows a model of three major themes that run throughout Jewish history. One of the themes is tradition and the reinterpretation of traditions. We have seen this in our class when it came to the Rabbinate's & Karaites, the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, and the different Rabbi interpretations or the Torah, Talmud, or Mishnah such as Rabbi Rashi or Rabbi Akiva. Throughout the museum, there were copies of the Torah in different structures such as the scroll made of parchment…

The first is to investigate the Essenes, a secret community hidden in the wilderness and isolated from society. Their isolation and non partake in the sacrificial cult of the Temple make Romans unsure of their political allegiance. As Andreas and his two slaves, Timon and Malchus journey to the hidden community they stumble upon Baruch, a banished Essene and learn about the community through him. In Andreas report, he mentions how the Essenes “differ from other Jews above all by their own…