Du «docteur de justice» à Tertullien (Ie partie)
From the «Doctor of justice» to Tertullian (1st part)

Summary/Abstract: The main interest of this article is the analysis of the essenism as an apocalyptical movement. It was born in a period when the majority of the apocalyptical texts appeared and it presents many other particularities: the eschatological orientation, the ethical and disciplinary interest, the valorisation of the prophetism, the importance allotted to angelology and the practices of divination. The author tries to focus particularly on the signification and the social functions that corporality has in the framework of such a religious movement, by taking into account the fact the there is a direct conditionation between the apocalyptical character of the essenism and the ascetical orientation it developed further. In the first part of his research, the author tries to describe the mechanism of the creation and legitimating of the ascetical behaviour. (1st Part; for the 2nd, see “Archævs. Studies in History of Religions” V. 3-4)

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