What Jesus Learned from the Essenes: The Blessing of Poverty, the Bane of Divorce
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Journal Article
Author(s):
Broshi, Magen
year:
2004
Full title:
What Jesus Learned from the Essenes: The Blessing of Poverty, the Bane of Divorce
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Biblical Archaeology Review
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30
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1
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0
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32-37, 64
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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.