SECRET GROUPS IN ANCIENT JUDAISM
by Stone, Michael E
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But after studying what has been written on secret societies more generally, Michael Stone has concluded that many known ancient Jewish groupsthe Qumran covenanters, Josephus's and Philo's Essenes, and Philo's Therapeutaeshould be viewed as societies at the heart of whose existence were esoteric knowledge and practice. Guarding and transmitting this esoteric knowledge and practice, Stone argues, provided the dynamic that motivated the social and conceptual structure of these groups. Analyzing them as secret societies, he says, enables us to see previously latent social structural dimensions, and provides many new enriching insights into the groups, including the Dead Sea covenanters.
By examining historical and literary sources, Stone uncovers evidence for the existence of other secret groups in ancient Jewish society. This line of study leads Stone not only to consider the "classical" Jewish apocalypses as pseudo-esoteric, but also to discern in them the footsteps of hidden, truly esoteric traditions cultivated in the circles that produced the apocalypses. This discovery has significant implications, especially considering the enormous growth of study of the apocalyptic in the Judaism of the Second Temple period and in nascent Christianity over the last seventy years.
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- Title
- SECRET GROUPS IN ANCIENT JUDAISM
- Author
- Stone, Michael E
- Book Condition
- New New cloth bound in dust jacket.
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- 1
- Edition
- First edition
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- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0190842385
- ISBN 13
- 9780190842383
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2017
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- Theosophy;
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