Identification of the Sect
- Overview
- Primary sources
- Josephus, Antiquities XIII, 297- The Pharisees and Sadducees on the Traditions of the Fathers
- Josephus, Antiquities XVIII, 18-22- The Doctrine of the Essenes
- Josephus, War II, 119-61- The Life of the Essenes
- Philo, Every Good Man is Free XII, 75-87- Description of the Essenes
- Pliny, Natural History V, xv- The Solitary Essenes
- Secondary sources
- Evidence of the Halakhic Letter, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994.
- Celibacy of the Essenes, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994.
- Essenes, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1994.
- Historical Ramifications, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994.
- Marriage Ritual, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 1994.
- Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth, Lawrence Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991.
- Essene Origins: Palestine or Babylonia? Biblical Archaeology Review (8:5) Sep/Oct 1982.
- Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, J.H. Charlesworth, Jesus Within Judaism, Doubleday, NY, 1988.
- The War Scroll, the Hasidim, and the Maccabean Conflict, Russel Gmirkin.
- The Wicked Priest, The Man of Lies, and The Righteous Teacher – The Problem of Identity, William H. Brownlee, The Jewish Quarterly Review 73,1 (1982).
- Frank Moore Cross. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Wrote Them.” Biblical Archaeology Review 3, 1 (1977).
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