> does anyone suggest me recent bibliography were the question Essenes / > Pythagoreans (Josephus, Ant XV, 371) is discussed? Thanks > > Alessandro Catastini Todd S. Beale, _Josephus' Description of the Essenes Illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls_ (Cambridge University Press, 1988) p. 129-30 has a good discussion of this question and cites other secondary literature. Russell Gmirkin