The Name of the Boethusians: A Reconsideration of Suggested Explanations and Another One

Schremer, Adiel

doi:10.18647/1999/jjs-1997

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“…Nowhere in rabbinic literature are groups or sects referred to as Bet [= house] + proper noun with the latter in the plural, but only in the singular (e.g., Bet Hillel, Bet Shammai), so that the correct reading would seem to be Baytosim = Boethusians. 75 In sum, our knowledge concerning the Boethusians and the Essenes/ Qumranites implies no correspondence, and only the misleading similarity of their names inspired those scholars to identify them (it should be noted in passing that we do not know the Essenes' Hebrew designation at all, and neither is the meaning of the Greek name known; 76 in addition, it need not be true that the Essenes are identical in all respects with the Qumran "Community" or the…”

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Were the Priests all the Same? Qumranic Halakhah in Comparison with Sadducean Halakhah

Regev¹

2005

Dead Sea Discov

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Were the Priests all the Same? Qumranic Halakhah in Comparison with Sadducean Halakhah

Regev¹

2005

Dead Sea Discov

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Rethinking Babylonian Rabbinic Acculturation in the Sasanian Empire

Gross

2018

Journal of Ancient Judaism

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The Tradition of the 364-Day Calendar versus the Calendar Polemic in Second Temple Judaism

Klukowski¹

2020

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The article presents the major hypotheses concerning the emergence of the 364-day calendar within Judaism and the related calendrical controversy, which presumably caused the separation of a certain group of Jews, known to us as the Qumran Community, from the temple cult in Jerusalem. It is not known whether the 364-day calendar tradition is older than that of the Astronomical Book, or whether the adoption of this tradition was accompanied by conflicts. The Qumran texts do not provide unequivocal evidence for any calendrical polemics. The only witness to these polemics is The Book of Jubilees, copies of which were found in the Qumran library. However, the Qumran Community itself did not share the radical line of The Book of Jubilees, which condemns reliance on the moon in time-keeping. The 364-day calendar is presumed to have been a distinctive feature of the Qumran Community, which however did not arouse any controversies within Second Temple Judaism.

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The Name of the Boethusians: A Reconsideration of Suggested Explanations and Another One

Cited by 3 publications

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Were the Priests all the Same? Qumranic Halakhah in Comparison with Sadducean Halakhah

Were the Priests all the Same? Qumranic Halakhah in Comparison with Sadducean Halakhah

Rethinking Babylonian Rabbinic Acculturation in the Sasanian Empire

The Tradition of the 364-Day Calendar versus the Calendar Polemic in Second Temple Judaism

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