Bibliography


Title: Hellenistic Utopia and the Essenes
Secondary Title: HThR
Author: Mendels, Doron
Volume: 72
Pages: 207-222
Type: Journal Article
Year: 1979
Abstract: "Modes of life at Qumran may have been formed with the influence of Hellenistic utopias, especially Iambulus'. The accounts of the Essenes by Philo and Josephus are not in the genre of classical utopias, but they are accurate".
Keywords: Specific Examinations of Josephus, collections of Josephus