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Document Details : Title: Celibacy in Qumran Subtitle: Hellenistic Fiction or Reality? Qumran's Attitude toward Sex Author(s): HEGER, Paul Journal: Revue de Qumran Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Date: numéro 101, 2013 Pages: 53-90 DOI: 10.2143/RQ.26.1.3203299 Abstract : The study tries to demonstrate the imaginative nature of the Hellenistic historians’ descriptions of the Essenes (assumed to be identical with the Qumran community) that influenced our views on Qumran’s attitude toward marriage, women, and sexual life before the discovery of the Qumran writings. In light of this evidence of unreliability, the author proposes that these portrayals be ignored, concluding that the Qumranites were not celibate, held no derogatory opinions about women, and had no aversion to marriage or to the enjoyment of legally permitted sexual activity. |
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