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| Essenes, their cardinal doctrines and practices | [6] |
| —— observance of Sabbath | [10] |
| —— sections and orders | [11] |
| —— origin of the sect | [14] |
| —— parallelism with Pythagorism | [15] |
| —— date of | [25] |
| —— derivation of name | [27] |
| —— Philo’s description of | [31] |
| —— Pliny’s ditto | [40] |
| —— Josephus’ ditto | [40] |
| —— Solinus’ ditto | [53] |
| —— Porphyry’s ditto | [54] |
| —— Epiphanius’ ditto | [56] |
| —— Modern literature on the | [59] |
| De Rossi | [59] |
| Dr. Thomas Godwyn | [62] |
| Theophilus Gale | [64] |
| Dean Prideaux | [65] |
| Basnage | [66] |
| Dr. Jennings | [66] |
| Bellermann | [67] |
| Neander | [67] |
| Rappaport | [68] |
| Gfrörer | [70] |
| Dähne | [71] |
| Frankel | [72] |
| Hall | [74] |
| Ewald | [76] |
| Graetz | [76] |
| Jost | [78] |
| Herzfeld | [78] |
| Hilgenfeld | [80] |
| Westcott | [80] |
| Milman | [81] |
| Hirschfeld | [81] |