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Headword:
*)essai=oi
Adler number: epsilon,3123
Translated headword: Essenes, Essaioi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Jews, ascetics, who greatly surpass Pharisees and scribes in their mode of life;[1] progeny of Jonadab, [who was the] son of Rechab the righteous. They are fond of one another and more pious than others: they turn away from pleasure as from an evil, but they regard moderation and self-control and the capacity not to succumb to passions as virtue[s]. And marriage is despised among them, but taking to themselves other people's children while they are still young and teaching them, they consider them as kin, and stamp them with their own customs. And they reject all baseness and practice every other virtue. They cultivate moral speech, and are generally assiduous in contemplation. And hence they are called Essaioi, with the name signifying this, that is, [they are] contemplators.[2]
Essaioi very much excel and are very much superior to the Pharisees in their mode of life.[3]
Greek Original:*)essai=oi: *)ioudai=oi, a)skhtai/, *farisai/wn kai\ grammate/wn th\n a)/skhsin e)c e)pime/trou dianesthko/tes, pro/gonoi *)iwnada/b, ui(ou= *(rixa\b tou= dikai/ou. fila/llhloi kai\ tw=n a)/llwn eu)labei=s plei=on: oi(\ th\n me\n h(donh\n w(s kaki/an a)postre/fontai, th\n de\ swfrosu/nhn kai\ e)gkra/teian kai\ to\ mh\ toi=s pa/qesin u(popi/ptein a)reth\n u(polamba/nousi. kai\ ga/mos me\n par' au)toi=s u(perora=tai, a)llotri/ous de\ pai=das ne/ous e)/ti proslambano/menoi kai\ dida/skontes w(s suggenei=s h(gou=ntai kai\ toi=s h)/qesin e(autw=n e)ntupou=si. kai\ pa=n ai)sxro\n a)poba/llontai kai\ pa=san a)/llhn a)reth\n e)caskou=sin. oi(\ e)pimelou=ntai th=s h)qikh=s le/cews, qewri/a| de\ ta\ polla\ parame/nousin. e)/nqen kai\ *)essai=oi kalou=ntai, tou=to dhlou=ntos tou= o)no/matos, toute/sti qewrhtikoi/. o(/ti *)essai=oi u(pe/rteroi sfo/dra kai\ li/an u(perkei/menoi tw=n *farisai/wn kata\ th\n politei/an.
Notes:
[1] cf.
epsilon 1632.
[2] George the Monk,
Chronicon 1.328.7-10, 329.11-17, 344.19-21. The Essaioi or Essenoi are mentioned by
Philo,
Josephus,
Pliny, and later authors (see Catholic Encyclopedia entry by E.P. Graham at web address 1, Jewish Encyclopedia entry by Kaufmann Kohler at web address 2). Various etymologies of the name have been proposed, starting with
Philo's suggestion of a derivation from Greek
o(/sios (
Every Good Man is Free 12). However, no plausible proposed etymology would explain why George the Monk makes a semantic connection between the name Essaioi and contemplation (
qewri/a).
[3] Quoted from
phi 94.
Stephen Goranson, "Essenes," Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997) v.2, pp. 268-9
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: children; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; religion
Translated by: George Brooks on 22 August 2002@08:37:42.
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