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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 ‘A Peculiar Problem’: A Short History of Scholarship on the Essenes
- 2 Philo of Alexandria
- 3 Josephus
- 4 The Herodians of the Gospel of Mark
- 5 Pliny
- 6 Dio Chrysostom, Synesius, and Julius Solinus
- 7 Christian and Jewish Writings from the Second to Fifth Centuries
- 8 Conclusions: The Essential Essenes
- 9 The History of the Dead Sea
- 10 Essenes beside the Dead Sea: Qumran
- 11 The Dead Sea Scrolls
- 12 ‘Roots, Remedies and Properties of Stones’: Dead Sea Healing
- General Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Subject Index
- Plates
Title Pages
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- The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1 ‘A Peculiar Problem’: A Short History of Scholarship on the Essenes
- 2 Philo of Alexandria
- 3 Josephus
- 4 The Herodians of the Gospel of Mark
- 5 Pliny
- 6 Dio Chrysostom, Synesius, and Julius Solinus
- 7 Christian and Jewish Writings from the Second to Fifth Centuries
- 8 Conclusions: The Essential Essenes
- 9 The History of the Dead Sea
- 10 Essenes beside the Dead Sea: Qumran
- 11 The Dead Sea Scrolls
- 12 ‘Roots, Remedies and Properties of Stones’: Dead Sea Healing
- General Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index of Ancient Sources
- Subject Index
- Plates
