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Jewish sect during the Second Temple period
here Essaion ("holding the Essenes in honour"; "a certain Essene named Manaemus"; "to hold all Essenes in honor"; "the Essenes"). In several places, however
Essenes
Archaeological site in the West Bank
sect of highly ritualistic Jews called the Essenes, a conclusion that has come to be known as the "Qumran–Essene hypothesis". This hypothesis suggests that
Qumran
Ancient Jewish manuscripts
scrolls with the Essenes well before any excavations at Qumran. The Qumran–Essene theory holds that the scrolls were written by the Essenes or by another
Dead_Sea_Scrolls
Type of bread
being milled into flour. Although sprouted breads like Essene bread (named after the Essenes) and Ezekiel bread (named after an ancient bread recipe
Sprouted_bread
Jewish sect or group active in Judea from 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE
the Essenes, suggest clashing ideologies and social positions between the Essenes and the Sadducees. In fact, some scholars suggest that the Essenes originated
Sadducees
Gnostic religion
movement and the Essenes. Similar to the Essenes, it is forbidden for a Mandaean to reveal the names of the angels to a gentile. Essene graves are oriented
Mandaeism
Jewish Tanna sage living during the era of the Zugot
hand and thenceforth bestowed special honors upon the Essenes. Jewishencyclopedia, MENAHEM THE ESSENE article Tractate "Hagigah" 16b Hagigah, 16b Yerushalmi
Menahem_the_Essene
Former Jewish sect
the Magharians with the Essenes, and the author referred to as the "Alexandrinian" with Philo (whose affinity for the Essenes is well-known), based on
Magarites
Unknown priest in the Dead Sea Scrolls
argues that the Teacher of Righteousness was not only the leader of the Essenes at Qumran, but was also considered something of a precursor to Jesus Christ
Teacher_of_Righteousness
American physician
"Essene Order of Light", a spiritual organization based upon teachings from the Jewish Kabbalah, the Torah, and modern interpretations of the Essenes.
Gabriel_Cousens
Hungarian scholar (1905–1979)
the Essenes were vegetarians, and that vegetarianism was prescribed by Jesus. Szekely claimed to have found an Aramaic translation of The Essene Gospel
Edmond_Bordeaux_Szekely
Village in Belgium
Essene is a submunicipality of Affligem in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization
Essene,_Belgium
Religious way of life
scholars as the "Essenes". Josephus records that Essenes existed in large numbers, and thousands lived throughout Roman Judaea. The Essenes have gained fame
Monasticism
Hypotheses on the origins of early Christianity
Christian–Essene origin theory is a set of minority hypotheses claiming that early Christianity emerged from or was decisively shaped by Essene traditions
Christian–Essene origin theory
Christian–Essene_origin_theory
One of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls
seemingly fits with the theory that the scroll(s) was a product of the Essenes, a mystic Jewish sect, first mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural
Isaiah_Scroll
Written descriptions of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ
six months later. The gospel references the Essenes a lot, and is allegedly written by an elder of the Essene order who was a close friend of Jesus'. The
List_of_gospels
1st-century Jewish revolutionary
1st-century Judaism (the first three being the Sadducees, the Pharisees, and the Essenes). Josephus blames this fourth sect for the First Jewish–Roman War of 66–73
Judas_of_Galilee
3rd-century BCE Hebrew text
between the Elcesaites and the earlier Second Temple Jewish sect of the Essenes (Essaioi "Saints"). During the twentieth century a number of finds shed
The_Book_of_Giants
1979 book by John M. Allegro
revealed by the Dead Sea Scrolls. Allegro sets New Testament themes alongside Essene writings and pesharim to reinterpret the Gospel narrative. First published
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_and_the_Christian_Myth
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls
communities' identification with Essenes has centered on comparing and contrasting Josephus' descriptions of Essenes (he describes other "philosophical
Community_Rule
Period in the life of Jesus
12 and 29, Jesus had visited India and Nepal, or had studied with the Essenes in the Judaean Desert. Modern mainstream Christian scholarship has generally
Unknown_years_of_Jesus
Municipality type B in Jerusalem, Palestine
mention of Simon the Leper at Bethany in Mark's Gospel suggests that the Essenes, or pious patrons from Jerusalem who held to a closely similar view of
Bethany
American university professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1939–2010)
Eric J. Essene (April 26, 1939, Berkeley, California – May 20, 2011, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was a professor emeritus of geosciences and a metamorphic petrologist
Eric_J._Essene
American sculptor and theologian
He was influenced by Buddhism, Confucianism and the teachings of the Essenes. He opposed the slaughter of animals, slavery and war. He argued that eating
Upton_C._Ewing
Jewish holiday
Wine, and then New Oil. (See also below, at "The Book of Jubilees and the Essenes".) Shavuot is not explicitly named in the Bible as the day on which the
Shavuot
1995 book by Norman Golb
the stance that the scrolls were not the work of the Essenes (or a group similar to the Essenes) living in the Qumran area, as most scholars think, but
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Who_Wrote_the_Dead_Sea_Scrolls?
Desert in the southern Levant
religious sects, including the classical-era Jewish ascetics of Qumran (likely Essenes) and Byzantine-era Christian monks who practiced spiritual isolation in
Judaean_Desert
Area of Jewish theology
about the ultimate fate of individuals were diverse. The Pharisees and Essenes believed in the immortality of the soul, but the Sadducees did not. The
Jewish_eschatology
First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader
to Moses. The three prominent religious parties were the Pharisees, the Essenes, and the Sadducees. Together these parties represented only a small fraction
Jesus
Hebrew religious text ascribed to Enoch
period of the Qumranic experience. The relation between 1 Enoch and the Essenes was noted even before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. While there
Book_of_Enoch
Topics referred to by the same term
the Armor of God mentioned in the New Testament Epistle to the Ephesians Essene Gospel of Peace, a New Testament apocryphon, a forgery by Edmond Bordeaux
Gospel_of_peace
Practices not in the Written Torah
aspects of Sadduceean law and methods of interpretation are not known. Essenes, a monastic group of people, had a "monastic organization". Though they
Oral_Torah
Prophet (6 BC – AD 30)
and Jesus were relatives. Some scholars think that John belonged to the Essenes, a semi-ascetic Jewish sect who expected a messiah and practised ritual
John_the_Baptist
Doctrine in Christian theology
salvation while leaving others to reprobation. Jewish groups like the Essenes may have believed in predestination, but there were complex differences
Predestination
Early Christian and Jewish religious systems
century AD) seems to make a distinction between two main groups within the Essenes: "Of those that came before his [Elxai (Elkesai), an Ossaean prophet] time
Gnosticism
Jewish social movement and school of thought
he divides the Jews in the 1st century AD. (The other schools were the Essenes, who were generally apolitical, and may have emerged as a sect of dissident
Pharisees
American biblical scholar (born 1937)
even three groups of "Essenes", “Zealot” or “Sicarii Essenes", and for Eisenman, this is a better definition of what the Essenes were than the more normative
Robert_Eisenman
1970 book by John Marco Allegro
University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0195156317. Taylor, Joan E. (2012). The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 305
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
The_Sacred_Mushroom_and_the_Cross
Jews who practice and observe Judaism
Second Temple Judaism Pharisees House of Hillel House of Shammai Sadducees Essenes Zealots Sicarii Biblists Sabbateanism Frankism Jewish religious movements
Religious_Jews
Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974
ISBN 978-0-8050-8086-5 Yahudah, Abba (2014), A journey to the roots of Rastafari : the Essene Nazarite link, Trafford Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4907-3316-6 Yuajah, Empress
Haile_Selassie
1985 American film
Essene healing magic. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian myth The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross Joan E. Taylor (November 15, 2012). The Essenes,
Healers_of_the_Dead_Sea
Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city
Priest.[dubious – discuss] The Essenes were not against the institution of the Temple and its cult per se. The Essenes at Qumran predicted the reunified
New_Jerusalem
First-century Christian sect
between the Ossaeans and the Nasaraeans, the two main groups within the Essenes: The Nasaraeans – they were Jews by nationality – originally from Gileaditis
Nazarene_(sect)
1st-century BCE set of 18 Jewish poems
to God's favor. There have been attempts to link the text both to the Essenes of Qumran, who separated themselves from what they saw as a wicked world
Psalms_of_Solomon
Ancient Jewish Document
were created to regulate the lifestyles of the Essenes who lived in the camps and did not join the Essene community that resided in Qumran. According to
Damascus_Document
Branch of Judaism practiced by the Beta Israel
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Haymanot
Jewish nationalist movement
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Zionism
Jewish diaspora of Central Europe
CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of May 2026 (link) Taylor, J. E. (2012). The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955448-5
Ashkenazi_Jews
Ancient Jewish Christian sect in Sassanid southern Mesopotamia
the Sampsæans, descendants of the earlier Elcesaites, and also among the Essenes and many other Ebionite communities. Epiphanius also mentions that the
Elcesaites
Society Period Notes Ref. Essenes 2nd century BCE – 1st century CE Mystic Jewish sect with communal living practices. Frisian freedom 800–1523 Territory
List_of_stateless_societies
Middle Eastern ethnoreligious group
congregation of bnia nhura, meaning 'Sons of Light', a term used by the Essenes. The bit manda (beth manda) is described as biniana rba ḏ-šrara ("the Great
Mandaeans
American writer and spiritual leader
Order of the Essenes and was its president. The Order of the Essenes was a vegetarian organization that was based on the teachings of the Essenes. In 1906
Grace_Mann_Brown
Ethnoreligious group
flourished during the late Second Temple period, namely the Sadducees and Essenes, eventually disappeared, while Pharisaic beliefs became the foundational
Jews
Saint and follower of Jesus
wife or partner, but rather as an unwilling voyeur. Ehrman says that the Essenes, a contemporary Jewish sect who shared many views with Jesus, and the apostle
Mary_Magdalene
Jewish organizations opposed to the existence of the State of Israel
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
List of Jewish anti-Zionist organizations
List_of_Jewish_anti-Zionist_organizations
Series of revolts by the Jews against the Roman Empire between 66 and 135 AD
linked to the Temple, vanished as a distinct group, as did the ascetic Essenes. However, the Pharisees, who had generally opposed the first revolt, emerged
Jewish–Roman_wars
Israeli archaeologist
Pliny as locating Ein Gedi south of the Essenes. Archaeologically, see "Not a Settlement of Hermits or Essenes: A Response to Y. Hirschfeld, A settlement
Yizhar_Hirschfeld
American hypnotherapist and author (1931–2014)
presented lectures in conjunction with the release of her book Jesus and the Essenes. She spoke at the Ozark UFO Conference in 1997. She also established the
Dolores_Cannon
Jewish coming of age rituals
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Bar_and_bat_mitzvah
Deity and symbol in the occult traditions
the scholars who worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls, argued in his book The Essene Odyssey that the word "Baphomet" was created with knowledge of the Atbash
Baphomet
Abolitionist movement
Second-Temple Judaism also opposed slavery: according to Philo of Alexandria, the Essenes (a radical Jewish sect in Judaea who rejected much of the institutions
Christian_abolitionism
One of the Dead Sea scrolls
identified with the Essenes. If this is correct, then 4QMMT helps scholars understand the issues that may have caused the Essene community to separate
4QMMT
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
History_of_the_Jews_in_Guinea
Australian historian, theologian, and biblical exegete (1930-2015)
scholarly paper Easter 2007 confirmed Jesus was at least connected to the Essenes right up to The Last Supper. Born in Sydney, Australia, as Barbara Houlsby
Barbara_Thiering
Jewish banker to European royalty
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Court_Jew
Qumran: On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus. Grand Rapids MI, 1998. See also Broshi, Magen, "What Jesus Learned from the Essenes", Biblical
Historical background of the New Testament
Historical_background_of_the_New_Testament
Flemish Carmelite friar
pioneer in making popular the concept of the Essenes as proto-Christian and indeed portrayed the Essenes as being entirely synonymous with the ancient
Daniel_de_la_Vierge-Marie
2001 Bible of the Palmarian Catholic Church
of the Essenes, (II) The Prophet Jonas, fourth Superior General of the Essenes, (III) The Prophet Micheas, fifth Superior General of the Essenes, (VI)
Palmarian_Bible
1991 book by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh
ISBN 0-8028-4650-5. Hartmut Stegemann (1998). The Library of Qumran: On the Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist, and Jesus. BRILL. pp. 13–27. ISBN 978-90-04-11210-0
The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
The_Dead_Sea_Scrolls_Deception
Converts to Judaism
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Gerim
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
History of the Jews in Somalia
History_of_the_Jews_in_Somalia
Jewish ethnic group
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Georgian_Jews
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
History of the Jews in Cameroon
History_of_the_Jews_in_Cameroon
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Lists_of_Jews
Proposal to develop Alaska through Jewish immigration
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Slattery_Report
Jewish beliefs and customs surrounding sneezing
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Judaism_and_sneezing
Book used by God in Abrahamic religions
practical point of view, the worldliness of Judaism to the heavenliness of the Essenes. Instead of transferring, as is done in the Book of Enoch, the Testament
Book_of_Life
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
History of the Jews in Sardinia
History_of_the_Jews_in_Sardinia
Calendar year
possible date). Ignatius of Antioch becomes the third bishop of Antioch. The Essenes place the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves at Qumran. July 4 – Salonia Matidia
AD_68
Denominations of Judaism
sometimes, these movements warred among themselves: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, and ultimately early Christians. Many historic sources such as
Jewish_religious_movements
Term referring to a non-Jew
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Gentile
Sect of Hellenistic Jews
Josephus said Herod "continued to honor all the Essenes." The people could have thought that the Essenes were Herod's pet and called them the Herodians
Herodians
Salt lake in the Levant
Herod Antipas and died. During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, some Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect, settled along the western shore of the Dead Sea
Dead_Sea
Hypothetical early Jewish-Christian congregation and its house of worship
Essenes in Jerusalem? In a long series of publications since 1976 the Dominican archaeologist Bargil Pixner has been arguing the case for an Essene quarter
Church_of_Zion,_Jerusalem
Overview of communist-oriented ideologies and practices prior to the works of Karl Marx
Books. "Essenes". Archived from the original on 13 October 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2019. Kohler, Kaufmann (1906). "Jewish Encyclopedia - Essenes". Archived
Pre-Marxist_communism
First five books of the Hebrew Bible
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Torah
1st-century BCE Essene text
The Book of Mysteries (also known as the Book of Secrets) is an ancient Essene text found in fragmentary form among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scroll fragments
Book_of_Mysteries
Type of flagellation and punishment mentioned in the Torah
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Malkot_(Judaism)
Hebrew Dead Sea Scroll
The Dibrê Moshe, also known as the Dires de Moïse or Words of Moses (identified as 1QDM = 1Q22), is a Hellenistic-Roman era manuscript fragment found among
Dibrê_Moshe
Scroll was regarded by scholar Yigael Yadin as "The Torah According to the Essenes". On the other hand, Hartmut Stegemann, a contemporary and friend of Yadin
List_of_the_Dead_Sea_Scrolls
Dispersion of Jews around the globe
in Political Relations, Brill Publishers 2001 p.507. J. E. Taylor The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, Oxford University Press 2012 p.243:'Up
Jewish_diaspora
1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh
an Émile Burnouf article claiming Buddhist missionaries sowed the seeds Essenes later reaped as Christianity; failed attempts creating his own Christ in
Café_Terrace_at_Night
Religion of the Jewish people
there were several small Jewish sects: the Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, Essenes, and Christians. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, these
Judaism
Christian anti-pagan polemic
the "heresy" of the Jews, who are divided into Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes. Book X concludes the work with a summary of what has written throughout
Refutation_of_All_Heresies
Meal that Jesus shared with apostles before crucifixion
year that Jesus died, a solar calendar was also used, for instance by the Essene community at Qumran, which always had the Passover feast begin on a Tuesday
Last_Supper
Jewish religion between 516 BCE and 70 CE
cross-cultural interactions. The Essenes community believed gentiles, including proselytes, were ritually impure, but the Essenes were even stricter and regarded
Second_Temple_Judaism
Prophets according to Biblical and rabbinical tradition
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Prophets_in_Judaism
17th-century European spiritual movement
Christian dualist movement Druze – Ethnoreligious group of the Levant Essenes – Jewish sect during the Second Temple period Jakob Böhme – German philosopher
Rosicrucianism
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
History of the Jews in Greenland
History_of_the_Jews_in_Greenland
1700s–1900s European granting of liberties to Jews
Maccabean Revolt Hasmonean dynasty Sanhedrin Schisms (Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots, Sicarii) Second Temple Judaism (Hellenistic Judaism) Jewish–Roman
Jewish_emancipation
ESSENES
ESSENES
ESSENES
ESSENES
Female
Danish
, follower of Christ.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Jayashree | ஜயஷà¯à®°à¯€
Victorious or Goddess of victory
Female
Scandinavian
Variant spelling of Scandinavian Katrine, CATRINE means "pure."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Tavanesh | தாவாநேஷ
Shiv name
Boy/Male
Tamil
Mukunth | à®®à¯à®•à¯à®¨à¯à®¤Â Â
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Embodiment of God
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit, Telugu
Owns a Glorious Chariot
Girl/Female
British, English
Eye of the Day
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Whole Universe
Boy/Male
Hindu
A vedic text
ESSENES
ESSENES
ESSENES
ESSENES
ESSENES
pl.
of Essene
n.
The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.