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| | Essenes - definition of Essenes in Encyclopedia |
 | | The Essenes (Issi'im) were a Jewish religious sect of Zadokites that flourished from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. | | | The Essenes were the followers of a group of priests who had essentially rejected the Second Temple. | | | Subsequently the Essenes referred to Yehoshua ben Shimon and his genealogically unqualified successors as The Wicked Priest (Kohein ha-Resha lit. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Essenes |
| | This was the only time when Essenes took oaths, their word being regarded by all as so sacred that Herod excused them from the oath of allegiance. | | | The sect arose about 150 B.C. (the first-named Essene is Judas, 110 B.C.) and disappeared towards the end of the first century A.D. They worshipped one God, Creator and Ruler of all things, omnipotent and omniscient. | | | Their belief in one God, reverence for one God, strict observance of the Sabbath, fanatic adherence to circumcision (Hippolytus), etc., all show this; while their attitude toward the sun, election of priests, mode of life, likened to the Pythagorean by Josephus himself, etc., seemed to show outside influence. |
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| | Essenes on Encyclopedia.com |
| | ESSENES [Essenes], members of a small Jewish religious order, originating in the 2d cent. | | | In this oath, the member pledged piety toward God, justice to men, honesty with fellow Essenes, preservation of the sect's secrets, and proper transmission of its teachings. | | | There is evidence of Persian and Hellenistic influences in the sect's thought. |
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| | U.C.M.H. Presents: Marijuana & The Bible |
| | The Essenes were an ascetic sect closely related to the Theraputea that had established a monastic order in the desert outside of Palestine and were known as spiritual healers. | | | Amongst the Essenes' ritual lustrations preceded most liturgical rites, the most important one of which was participation in a sacred meal -- an anticipation of the Messianic banquet. | | | Certain theologians speculate that Jesus was being initiated by the Essenes, the last fraternity to keep alive the ancient traditions of the prophets. |
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