essene|essenes in English

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member of an ascetic sect of Judaism which inhabited the area north of the Dead Sea between approximately 200 BC - AD 100

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1. Both the Essenes and the Pharisees practiced frequent ablutions.

2. Essenes: A group of ascetics who isolated themselves in separated communities.

3. The Essenes were mystics who apparently lived in a few isolated communities.

4. The Hasidim split into three groups: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes.

5. And yet we see the Essenes "Allegorize" the bloody altar out of …

6. Ascetic Jewish sects existed in ancient and medieval era times, [51] most notably the Essenes and Ebionites

7. 14 Among those who did not hold marriage in high esteem were the Essenes of Paul’s time.

8. A similarity is also claimed in that both Christians and Essenes made use of symbolic ablutions or baptisms.

9. 15 The Essenes were not only greatly inclined to apocalyptic views and legalism, but they were frantically anti-Hellenistic.

10. Celibacy among Jews was a strictly sectarian practice; Josephus ascribes it to some of the *Essenes (Wars 2:120–21)

11. Some claim to see a relationship between the Essenes and John the Baptist’s abstemious course, dwelling in the wilderness, not drinking wine, and living in a celibate state; but in view of the foregoing it might be observed that there was as much similarity between John the Baptist and the Essenes as there is between a human living infant and a papier-maché doll.

12. The Essenes were Jews who were remarkably similar to the early Christians as evinced in their deemphasis upon property and wealth, their communalism and in their rejection of animal sacrifices.

13. The Essene Morning and Evening Communions CS-68 and the Noon Peace Contemplations The Monday Evening Communion with the Angel of Peace "Peace, peace, peace, Angel of Peace, be always everywhere." Contemplate the crescent moon and the moonlight, invoking and visualizing universal peace in all spheres of existence.

14. 13 The sect of the Essenes shared with the Hellenistic Puritans who followed Pythagoras in believing “not only the dualistic doctrine of body and soul, but the striving for bodily purity, the practice of ablutions, the rejection of blood offerings, the encouragement of celibacy [becoming in effect eunuchs].”

15. Philo of Alexandria, the first century Jewish sage, philosopher, and exegete, perhaps known most famously in Christian circles as the great Allegorizer of Israel’s scripture whose methods were taken up by the Alexandrian fathers of the church, has an important description of the ethics of the Essenes that may be pertinent to the question.

16. Judaism, the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, did not generate any official monastic institutions, and its normative form, Rabbinic Judaism, is the least sympathetic of the Abrahamic religions to monasticism.The Essenes of the Qumrān community, the sole monastic group in the history of Judaism, were, in their own vision, inimical to the ecclesiastic