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Gabriele Boccaccini. Beyond the Essene Hypothesis: The Parting of the Ways Between Qumran and Enochic Judaism. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1998. xx, 230 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2003

Hindy Najman
Hindy Najman
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University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana
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Extract

Boccaccini makes two important contributions in this work: he employs the methods of intellectual history to give a novel account of the origins of the Qumran community and he seeks to overcome the supersessionism characteristic of Christian studies of ancient Judaism.

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AJS Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , October 2002 , pp. 352 - 354
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© 2002 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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