Essenes - Quiz
A) People of the river Jordan B) Sons of the light C) Followers of John the Baptist D) Guardians or possessors of secret rites and knowledge
A) Kurt Rudolph B) Josephus C) John the Baptist D) The Dead Sea Scrolls author
A) Zealots B) Essenes C) Pharisees D) Sadducees
A) Sons of Light B) Lord of Greatness C) House of Perfection D) Chosen righteous
A) Baptismal water B) Elect of righteousness C) Great building of Truth D) Guardians of secret rites
A) The Great Building B) Gentiles C) Pharisees D) Sons of Light
A) Yardena B) Bnia nhura C) Nasaraean D) Manda
A) Forbidden to pray to angels B) Forbidden to write down angel names C) Forbidden to reveal names of angels to a gentile D) Forbidden to believe in angels
A) Facing Jerusalem B) North–south C) East–west D) Facing the sunrise
A) The tomb of John B) The book of righteousness C) The Great building of Truth D) The house of the Pharisees
A) Book of Enoch B) Community Rule C) Ginza Rabba D) Genesis Apocryphon II
A) Epiphanius B) Joseph Lightfoot C) John the Baptist D) Kurt Rudolph
A) Political activism B) Temple sacrifice C) Urban living D) Pacifism
A) Josephus B) Philo C) Pliny the Elder D) Epiphanius
A) Pliny the Elder's account B) Direct testimony from their leader C) The discovery of a temple inscription D) They are mentioned by name in the Qumran caves
A) They follow traditional ancestral burial customs B) They were buried with their entire families C) The bodies were cremated D) They are individual, isolated burials
A) They were not families B) They were royalty C) They were a nomadic tribe D) They were temporary visitors
A) They practiced polygamy B) They were prohibited from marriage entirely C) Many were celibate D) They were all required to marry
A) Private ownership B) State ownership C) Collective ownership D) They owned nothing at all
A) Reading the Torah B) Praying in public C) Sacrificing animals D) Performing ritual baths
A) They were against it B) They viewed it as a divine right C) They were masters of many slaves D) They only allowed slave ownership for women
A) A monetary offering B) Public confession before the whole city C) Permission from the Roman authorities D) Repentance
A) They were famous merchants B) They only traded with other Jews C) They relied solely on government subsidies D) They did not engage in it
A) Religious talismans B) Nothing, they were pacifists C) Shields only D) Weapons
A) Byzantine period B) Second Temple period C) Hellenistic period D) First Temple period
A) Four thousand B) One thousand C) Two hundred D) Ten thousand
A) Ein Gedi B) Jerusalem C) Qumran D) Masada
A) Roman priests B) Levite priests C) Zadokite priests D) Hasidic priests
A) The Laypeople B) Contemplatives C) Sons of Zadok D) The Elders
A) The Damascus Document B) Antiquities of the Jews C) The Jewish War D) Dead Sea Scrolls
A) Josephus B) VanderKam C) Pliny D) Philo
A) Esseni B) Essaios C) Essaion D) Essaioi
A) pious B) holiness C) doers of Torah D) outsiders
A) Pliny B) Gabriele Boccaccini C) Josephus D) Philo
A) hisonim B) Hassidim C) Hesi'im D) osey haTorah
A) hisonim B) Hassidim C) Essaioi D) Esseni
A) Hesi'im B) Hassidim C) hisonim D) osey haTorah
A) Artemis B) Pharisees C) Hassidim D) Sadducees
A) four B) two C) three D) five
A) severer B) identical C) laxer D) gentler
A) strictly professional B) greater affection for each other C) no personal relationships D) constant conflict
A) Philo B) Boccaccini C) Josephus D) Pliny
A) Eastern Aramaic texts B) Dead Sea Scrolls C) The New Testament D) The Mishnah
A) Sefer Yosippon B) Antiquities of the Jews C) The Jewish War D) The Mishnah
A) Father Roland de Vaux B) Jonathan C) John the Essene D) The Teacher of Righteousness
A) Lydda B) Joppa C) Thamna D) Emmaus
A) Lawrence Schiffman B) Roland de Vaux C) Norman Golb D) Philo
A) Father Roland de Vaux B) Jonathan C) The Teacher of Righteousness D) John the Essene
A) Roland de Vaux B) Norman Golb C) Lawrence Schiffman D) Fred Gladstone Bratton
A) Fred Gladstone Bratton B) Lawrence Schiffman C) John the Essene D) Father Roland de Vaux
A) Secular B) Monarchist C) Isolationist D) Eschatological
A) Luke 1:31-35 B) John 3:16 C) Matthew 5:1-10 D) Acts 2:42
A) A belief in multiple gods B) High devotion C) The worship of idols D) Strict adherence to dietary laws
A) Daniel de la Vierge-Marie B) The Prophet Elias C) Daniel R. Schwartz D) Luke the Evangelist
A) Voluntary celibacy B) Multiple marriages C) Animal sacrifice D) Military service
A) The Prophet Elias B) Daniel R. Schwartz C) John the Baptist D) Jesus
A) Philo B) The Alexandrinian C) Jacob Qirqisani D) Abraham Harkavy
A) 1st century BCE B) 1st century CE C) 2nd century BCE D) 3rd century BCE
A) Directly through prophets B) Through written scriptures only C) Through animal sacrifice D) Through an angel
A) The Logos B) The Torah C) The Temple D) The Covenant
A) They shared the same leaders B) They worshiped in the same temples C) The founding dates coincide D) They lived in the same cities |
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