Full title
What Jesus Learned from the Essenes: The Blessing of Poverty, the Bane of Divorce
Research notes
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Reference type
Year
2004
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Biblical Archaeology Review
Volume
30
Number of volumes
0
Issue / Series Volume
1
Pages
32-37, 64
Alternative title
BAR
Label
28/06/2004
Abstract
Jesus absorbed two key teachings for the ascetic Essenes Jewish sect. The Essenes were the only Jewish religious movement that regarded poverty as a value.
Notes
For further details, see Magen Broshi, “Matrimony and Poverty: Jesus and the Essenes,” in Bread, Wine, Walls and Scrolls, Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series 36 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001), pp. 252–258; reprinted from Revue de Qumran, 19 (2000), pp. 628–634.