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| Title: Les Esséniens croyaient-ils à la résurrection? Pages: 409-440 Type: Generic Year: 1997 Abstract: "Fitzmyer, Joseph A. in: OTA 21,1 (1998) 120-121: Did the Qumran Essenes believe in the resurrection at the end of time? Why does Josephus (J.W. 2 §§154-58; Ant 18. §18) attribute to them the Greek notion of immortality of the soul? Hippolytus (Elenchos 9§27), however, who is otherwise largely dependent on Josephus' account, maintains that ""the doctrine of the resurrection is well established among them."" By examining, first the OT and related pseudepigrapha, and then the Qumran data, P. shows that not only the Essenes but the Pharisees as well, being successors of the Asideans, believed indeed in the resurrection of the dead, as Hyppolytus correctly maintained. Under the heading ""OT and pseudepigrapha"" P. discusses Dan 12:2; Hos 6:1-3; Ezek 37:1-14; Isa 26:14,19; 52:13-53:12; Job 19:25-27; Sir 48:7-11; 2 Maccabees; 1 Enoch (Book of Watchers and Book of Dreams); Apocalypse of Isaiah. From these he derives the common belief of the Essenes and Pharisees. Under the heading of ""Qumran data,"" P. examines various passages in the Hodayot (1 QH 25:3-16; 5 [or 13]; 4:21-17; 11:12,20-37); the Manual of Discipline (1 QS 11;3:13-4:26); the War Scroll (1QM 12:6 [depend on Daniel 10-12]; 17:17-18; the Damascus Document (CD 20:10,13; 3:20; 7:6; 19:1,10) and diverse other Qumran texts (4Q245; 4Q504; 11QMelchizedek; 4QpMicah; 4QpPs37; 4QSecEzek; 4QApocMess [4Q521]). He also introduces evidence from the Essene mode of burial. Form all such evidence P. concludes that the Essenes believed in the bodily resurrection of the dad at the final judgment, when the righteous would enjoy the glory of Adam in Paradise. This belief wold be inherited b< the Christians in the NT." |