Stephen wrote
> That Josephus used sources is plain. R. Bergmeier (Die Essener-Berichte
1993)
> did not sort these our persuasively. But Steve Mason (orion) and Ken
Penner
> (JBS 1.4, 2001)--though making several quite useful observations on the
Greek
> text--excessively deemphasize sources. That Josephus uses "heimarmene" in
Ant
> 13 of Essenes only suggests a (Stoic) source; and Josephus names Strabo in
book
Persuasion?... I am still persuaded, and not only because I understand the
language of Bergmeier. But I see that the time is not yet ripe to say
farewell to the Essene chimeara - the probably only reason why the scholarly
bios theoretikos tramples on the spot already for decades.
Btw Ant 13 171f. - the doxographic heimarmene description of the
three-school scheme acc. to the doctrines is alien within its context.
Dierk
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Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
www.kun.nl
The son of Telamon, sweeping in through the mass
of the fighters
struck him at close quarters through the brazen cheeks
of his helmet...
and the brain ran from the wound along the spear by
the eye-hole... (Iliad 17.193-98)
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