"Étienne Nodet proposes that Qumran functioned as a pilgrimage site for the Essenes from the 1st century BC onwards. Nodet suggests that the Essenes were scattered everywhere within Palestine in rural communities and that they used to commemorate a renewal of the early Israelites’ entrance into...

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1. Verfasser:	Nodet, Étienne 1944-2024 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Pascale-Dominique soeur (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York T&T Clark 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies 37 Bloomsbury collections
Schlagworte:	Essener Qumran Essenes Qumran community Jewish sects
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Zusammenfassung:	"Étienne Nodet proposes that Qumran functioned as a pilgrimage site for the Essenes from the 1st century BC onwards. Nodet suggests that the Essenes were scattered everywhere within Palestine in rural communities and that they used to commemorate a renewal of the early Israelites’ entrance into the Promised Land, after crossing the Jordan river and celebrating Passover at Gilgal with Joshua, Moses’ heir. The Essene dead were moved to be buried at Qumran in a well-organized graveyard, as the place was deemed to be a kind of gate to heaven. Nodet shows how the Jewish movement of the Essenes did not did not disappear after the war in 70 CE, rather its customs had a strong influence upon early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. The chapters of this book examine the Essenes in the period after the war in Jerusalem, showing how this community developed and its longer term significance. This is linked to the texts of the New Testament, to the writings of Josephus and to the Qumran community’s own documents, the Dead Sea Scrolls. The proposal expounded in this study is simple: Qumran, near the Dead Sea, was since the 1st century BC a pilgrimage site of the Essenes, who were scattered everywhere within Palestine in rural communities. They used to commemorate a renewal of the early Israelites’ entrance into the Promised Land, after crossing the Jordan river and celebrating Passover at Gilgal with Joshua, Moses’ heir. The Essene dead were moved to be buried there, too, in a well-organized graveyard, for the place was deemed to be a kind of gate to heaven, above the Promised Land. This Jewish movement, in which new members were coopted without birthrights, viewed itself as the true Israel or the true Covenant. It did not disappear after the war in 70, and some of its customs had a strong influence upon early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism [...]."
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (252 Seiten)
ISBN:	9780567709738 9780567709721
DOI:	10.5040/9780567709738