Essenes: Monastic, Ascetic Mystics Flashcards

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Name:

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Unknown origin

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Origin

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  • Reactionary movement meant to counter corrupt Sadducean priesthood
  • Identified with various groups including Hassidim, Zealots, greek influence or iranian influence
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Segments of Society

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-Scattered throughout the villages of Judea , Qumran community

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Key Tenets

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  • Very strict ascetics
  • Monastic, took vow of celibacy, some did marry for the purpose of procreation
  • Rigidly adherent to the law, strict rendering of ethical teachings
  • Considered other literature as authoritative, in addition to the hebrew scriptures
  • Believed and lived a life of pacifism
  • Rejected temple worship and offerings as corrupted
  • immortal soul, no bodily resurrection
  • Apocalyptically oriented
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Activities

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  • Devoted to copying and studying the manuscripts of the law
  • community oriented
  • long probationary period and ritual baptisms of those wishing to join
  • highly virtuous and righteous
  • extremely self-disciplined
  • diligent manual labourers
  • great importance to daily worship
  • upheld rigid Sabbath laws
  • Maintained a non-levitical priesthood
  • rejected worldly pleasures as evil
  • rejected matrimony, but did not forbid others to marry
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