Essenes
A tradition no longer extant within Judaism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Essenes is recorded within Judaism and is no longer extant. Also written Essenoi, Essaioi.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: the third of Josephus's philosophies, described by him at greatest length, also described by Philo and located by Pliny the Elder on the western shore of the Dead Sea. No founder and no founding date appear in the ancient sources.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Essenes.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-essenes.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Essenes},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-essenes},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.