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The mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls remains, over 60 years after their rediscovery. Who hid them and why? This book reinvigorates the contested hypothesis that the Essenes were responsible. Rather than being a marginal esoteric sect, Taylor shows that this group acted as one of the leading legal schools of Judaism.

Essenes. --- Dead Sea scrolls. --- Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan) --- History. --- Jewish sects --- Qumran community --- Jerusalem scrolls --- ʻAin Fashka scrolls --- Jericho scrolls --- Scrolls, Dead Sea --- Qumrân scrolls --- Rękopisy z Qumran --- Shikai bunsho --- Megilot Midbar Yehudah --- Dodezee-rollen --- Kumránské rukopisy --- Documentos de Qumrán --- Textos de Qumrán --- Rollos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscritos del Mar Muerto --- Manuscrits de la mer Morte --- Dödahavsrullarna --- Kumranin kirjoitukset --- Kuolleenmeren kirjoitukset --- Qumranhandskrifterna --- Qumranin kirjoitukset --- Qumran Caves scrolls --- Baḥr al Mayyit (Israel and Jordan) --- Baḥrat Lūṭ (Israel and Jordan) --- Bahret Lut (Israel and Jordan) --- Birket Lut (Israel and Jordan) --- Buḥayrat Lūṭ (Israel and Jordan) --- East Sea (Israel and Jordan) --- Lacus Asphaltites (Israel and Jordan) --- Mar Morto (Israel and Jordan) --- Mer Morte (Israel and Jordan) --- Salt Sea (Israel and Jordan) --- Sea of the Plain (Israel and Jordan) --- Totes Meer (Israel and Jordan) --- Yam Ha Melah̲ (Israel and Jordan) --- Yam ham Mēlah (Israel and Jordan)

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"On the Contemplative Life is known for its depiction of a philosophical group of Jewish men and women known as the 'Therapeutae'. Yet the reasons for their depiction have been little understood. In the first commentary on the treatise in English for over 100 years, the social, cultural and political background of the times in which Philo lived are shown to be crucial in understanding Philo's purposes. As Alexandrian Jews were vilified and attacked, Philo went to Rome to present the case for his community, faced with intense opposition. Side-stepping direct confrontation, Philo here cleverly presents the Therapeutae as the pinnacle of excellence, most especially in their communal meal, while ridiculing his accusers in a stinging parody of a festive banquet"--

Therapeutae --- Philo,