Noun1.Essene- a member of an ascetic Jewish sect around the time of Jesus Jew,Hebrew,Israelite- a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties Adj.1.Essene- said of or relating to the Essenes ...
different. The root-matter of much that is shadowed forth in the traditional history of the Craft, as regards the meaning of the Temple and the search for the Lost Word, is to be found in certain great texts known to scholars under the generic name of Kabbalah. We find therein after wha...
was once full of precious stonesC. contained a surprising number of scrollsD. was mostlikely broken in4. What might be the most suitable title for thetext?A. Could There Be More Dead Sea Scrolls?B. Do Dead Sea Scrolls Keep Record ofHistory?C. Will More Caves Be Found with Dead Sea...
the rituals and many elements of the mythological world view were taken from earlier religious traditions. The books interpreting the history of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah from the point of view of the fulfillment or nonfulfillment of Yahweh’s conditions by the kings and the population als...
Moreover, the history of any system of belief or morals, newly introduced into a foreign soil, shows that its beginnings were impeded by38 Key to Theosophyevery obstacle that obscurantism and selfishness could suggest. “The crown of the innovator is a crown of thorns” indeed! No pulling ...
Philip R. DAVIES, Behind the Essenes. History and Ideology in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brown Judaic Studies 94), Scholars Press, Atlanta 1987, 150 pp., cloth $ 24.95 (members $ 18.95)doi:10.1163/157006388X00291GarcíaMartínezJournal for the Study of Judaism...
History: The history of reality, beginning before the creation of Angels and ending with the current state of Man. Prophecy: The end of an age and the beginning of Utopia and the plan for our eternal destiny. Wisdom: The Seven Wisdoms, as taught to Chester by the Master. Misc: Res...
If a function is single-valued and analytic in some neighborhood of the pointz0in the complex plane and there exists neither a finite nor an infinite limit for the function asz→z0, thenz0is said to be an essential singularity of the function (seeANALYTIC FUNCTIONS). For example, the point...
Women’s control of their Hypergamous influences, not to mention the opportunities to fully optimize it, was unfettered by moral or social constraints for the first time in history. For men the idea of a ‘Free Love’ social order was appealing because it promised optimization of their own ...
2. Origin and history. The roots of the Pharisees can be traced to the “Hasidim” of the 2nd cent.—those “pious men” of Israel whose loyalty to their covenant relationship with Yahweh impelled them to resist the increasing pressure toward Hellenization. The Maccabean uprising (167 b.c....