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   Essenes
   • (pl. ) of Essene
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   Essenes
   The Essenes (in Modern but not in Ancient Hebrew: {Hebrew|אִסִּיִים}, Isiyim; Greek: Εσσήνοι, Εσσαίοι, or Οσσαίοι; Essēnoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi) were a sect of Second Temple Judaism that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE which some scholars claim ...
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   Essenes
   Essenes (es'ēnz) , members of a small Jewish religious order, originating in the 2d cent. B.C. The chief sources of information about the Essenes are Pliny the Elder, Philo's Quod omnius probus liber, Josephus' Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews, and (possibly) the Dead Sea Scrolls. Th...
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   Essenes
   The Essenes were a Jewish religious body of monastic habits of life arising in the 2nd century BC. They combined strict Hebraism with asceticism and were thus marked off from the rest of the Jews.
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   essenes
   1) Ancient ascetics 2) Ancient group of mystics 3) Ancient jewish sect 4) Ancient jewish sect of qumran 5) Ancient semites 6) Ascetic jewish sect 7) Ascetics of yore 8) Dead sea ascetics 9) Dead sea scrolls makers 10) Dead sea scr...
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