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| Title: He Knew that He Knew that He Knew that he was an Essene Secondary Title: JJS Volume: 48 Pages: 53-61 Type: Journal Article Year: 1997 Abstract: Levison, John Robert in: OTA 21.2 (1998), 297: "B. examines relevant literary sources in order to suggest that Essenes were able to identify one another by means of their outmoded dress code, plain food, and devotion to an agricultural lifestyle. These characteristics were necessary for selfidentification because the typical small shovel, loincloth, and white garment worn at the meal (Josephus, BJ 2.129-61) could hardly be in evidence prior to a meal, whenever an Essene took a journey, or because these items count not be taken on journeys at all (BJ 2.125). B. infers, moreover, that the outmoded dress, food, and occupation of the Essene may indicate the profundity of the upheavals of the second century B.C.E. which impelled the Essenes to return to ways of life typical of the era prior to the Polemic age".
Harrington, Daniel J.: "Plain standard clothes, plain food, and old fashioned hard agricultural toil were indications of the Essenes' unwillingness to adopt the trappings of "modern" life. These aspects of the Essene way of life not only allowed members of the group to identify each other but also served to express the Essene attitude toward the irrevocably unredeemed world around them." Keywords: Groups and Religious Movements in Palestinian Judaism |