TY - BOOK ID - 31393579 TI - Secret groups in ancient Judaism PY - 2017 SN - 9780190842383 0190842385 9780190842406 0190842407 9780190842390 9780190842413 0190842415 0190842393 PB - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Jewish sects KW - 229*3 KW - 229*3 Dode Zeerollen en intertestamentaire literatuur KW - Dode Zeerollen en intertestamentaire literatuur KW - Jews KW - Sects KW - Judaism KW - Jewish heresies KW - Jewish sects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31393579 AB - The thesis advanced in this work is that the model of a secret or esoteric group is fruitful for studying various movements and groups in the Greco-Roman world. This is worked out in the extremely interesting case of the Essenes and the Qumran covenanters, for which we have available not only outsider descriptions but also the very documents that embody at least part of their secret teachings. ER -