L'eschatologie essénienne dans la littérature apocalyptique

The scrolls excavated near Khirbet Qumran get back mainly the multiplicity of apocalyptic eschatologies, especially these ones of Daniel and 1Enoch. The Essene concept of eschatology intermingle diachronic and synchronic views. The 'end of times' is composed of a trial’s time, already begun at Essenes’ time, and a dawning salvation’s time but these ones seem to merge in many documents. Therefore the eschatological era does not compose of two successive or chronological periods: a trial’s time and then a salvation’s time. The trials are finished at the Day of Judgment but the salvation’s time has begun during the trial’s time. The salvation’s time does not begin by a precise event, it develops progressively and it grows nearer the messianic era is. The Essene eschatology is also understood in a synchronic view.