I: THE ESSENES IN ANCIENT LITERATURE 1. A Peculiar Problem : A Short History of Scholarship on the Essenes 2. Philo of Alexandria 3. Josephus 4. The Herodians of the Gospel of Mark 5. Pliny 6. Dio Chrysostom, Synesius, and Julius Solinus 7. Jewish and Christian Literature of the 2nd to 4th Centuries 8. Conclusions: the Essential Essenes II: THE DEAD SEA, THE ESSENES AND THE SCROLLS 9. The History of the Dead Sea 10. Essenes beside the Dead Sea: Qumran 11. The Dead Sea Scrolls 12. Roots, Remedies and Properties of Stones : Dead Sea Healing Conclusions
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