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I believe that you will greatly enjoy this scholarly dissertation; as it covers discussion of the solar calendar. However I think that you will greatly benefit from listening from about the 53 minute mark to the 1:06:35 mark.
"The Essenes are not known in the Hebrew language."
Rachel Elior (born 28 December 1949) is an Israeli professor of Jewish philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Israel. Her principal subjects of research has been Hasidism and the history of early Jewish mysticism.[1]
Academic career
Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University, where she has taught since 1978. Currently she is the head of the Department of Jewish Thought. She earned her PhD Summa cum laude in 1976. Her specialties are early Jewish Mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hekhalot literature, Messianism, Sabbatianism, Hasidism, Chabad,[2] Frankism and the role of women in Jewish culture.
She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, UCL, Yeshiva University, the University of Tokyo, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, in the University of Chicago and at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
She is a member of the board of the international council of the New Israel Fund.
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Yeah, I have actually watched that dissertation twice now in the past, and although there is a wealth of great information presented, the comment you have quoted is one that I do not agree with because of what I presented from the scripture. Sefer Daniel was obviously one of the most important writings to the Yahad-community, and many Aramaic fragments of that and various other works including Henok were found there, so it shouldn't be any surprise that they might light upon a word that is found in both Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the scripture. Moreover I do not think Josephus is wrong on this one: he was too close to the real thing to make such a mistake as to incorrectly name one of the four main sects of Yisrael.
Moreover Ein Gedi was almost surely a Tzadokim town in the era of the Yahad because of the prophecy in Ezekiel 47:10-12, (which is probably speaking of "fishers of men", and is the source text for Rev 22:2). Members of the Yahad were scattered in little groups all over Yisrael, at the least in the form of a minyan for each group, (a quorum of ten, which would constitute an informal synagogue whether they had a building or not, (house meetings and gatherings, just as the early Messianic congregations)).
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