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Re: orion HIPPOLYTUS: THE ESSENE TEXT
TO: Asia Lerner
Could you please elaborate about his extravagance regarding the
Saduccees?
And what do you think has embroidered on the passage regarding the
Essenes?
George.X.Brooks@Juno.Com
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:28:49 +0200 asia@checkpoint.com writes:
>At 08:22 PM 9/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>You asked if Hippolytus was copying from Josephus. Once you read the
>>text, I think you will believe that Josephus and Hippolytus were
>writing
>>from some PRIOR text.
>
>This very same Hippolytus is a corner stone of Del Medico's "The Myth
>of
>The Essenes". Del Medico's theory is that Hippolytus' text is the
>source of
>the Essene passages in Josephus, these passages being a late (3-4th
>century) insertion, not written by Josephus originally.
>
>On my part, it seems to me that there are few things in Hippolytus
>that
>cannot be derived from one of the Big Three : Philo, Josephus and
>Pliny,
>and the notion of an original source prior to Josephus and Hippolytus
>seems
>unnecessary. Hippolytus simply has a tendancy for embroidering on his
>sources - this is as obvious in the passage on Sadduccees as it is in
>the
>passage on the Essenes.
>
>
>All best, Asia Lerner
>
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