Issuniyah "Essene" Judaism: Survival, Revolution, and Resurgence
Moreh Mikhah ben David Naziri (Author)
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It has been well over a century since the world has seen any sign of Essenic Judaism in its continuously adapting and evolving form. The statement alone will sound to some enigmatic, to others ignorant, and to other still, preposterous. Certainly, “we all know” that the Essenes perished when the Roman’s overtook Qumran. We have no record to indicate this, of course, but “we all know” it to be true nonetheless, just as “we all know” that the Essenes were a completely celibate order of Jewish ascetics, who never married or reproduced. This, “we all know” is a large part of the reason why they simply died off in the first century.
To the individual who believes this to be true, there is little that can be done to sway them. They will likely not read beyond these words. They will disregard literature whose thesis contradicts their very core of their presumptions and bias about what is “the truth” of history.
I can assure you, however, that if you take the time to read this book, you will be convinced that it would have been impossible for the Essene sect to have died off in the Second Temple Era. Moreover, you will be convinced that the group was not a completely or exclusively celibate order. Furthermore, the vast majority of you will be convinced that the sect survived in various incarnations for many centuries after their presumed demise. Though this work will not deal with incarnations of the Essenic forms of Judaism, and those movements which it pollinated into the Modern Era, it will make the case for which that study can be pursued in the lengthy article A Case Study in the Chronology of Medieval Judeo-Sufi ”Chassidim” which I have written as part of my doctoral work.
This work, instead, will focus on explaining my own personal introduction to the ` A{^a}a{^1}£unA<
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