The Therapeutae were a religious sect which existed in Alexandria and other parts of the ancient Greek world. The primary source concerning the Therapeutae...
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Therapeutae (plural) is Latin from the Greek plural Therapeutai (Θεραπευταί). The term therapeutes means one who is attendant to the gods although the...
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Lake Mareotis in the vicinity of Alexandria, Egypt which he calls the Therapeutae. Members of the community lived apart from one another during six days...
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Lake Mariout (section Therapeutae)
the Therapeutae were widely distributed in the ancient world, but that "their country" was "beyond the Maereotic lake". Some interpret the Therapeutae as...
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Testament of Job (section Therapeutae)
the work originated from the Therapeutae. However, speaking in tongues has not been recorded as a practice of the Therapeutae. At the end of the 5th century...
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Joan E. Taylor (section The Therapeutae)
of First-Century Alexandria: Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered. Taylor challenged the belief that the Therapeutae were an Essenic community and showed...
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"Therapeutae"", Научно-теоретический журнал 2019 https://www.academia.edu/39841429/Traces_of_Buddhist_Presence_in_Alexandria_Philo_and_the_Therapeutae_...
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He locks up Yaltha and Ana, but they escape and find refuge at the Therapeutae, the Gnostic commune where Yaltha first learned to read and write. Ana...
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Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius. The etymology of the name is unknown. In his revised version...
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sects of Second Temple Judaism, such as the Essenes in Judaea and the Therapeutae in Alexandria, were said to have a "secret or hidden" literature.[citation...
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which is believed to relate to the compiling of the hymnbook used by a Therapeutae community. Job gives one of his daughters "a cord" (possibly a stringed...
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etymology of 'physician' may derive from the sect of the θεραπευταί (Therapeutae), of which Ephanius was familiar. From Greek, Ἰησοῦς (Iēsous) moved into...
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there was an association between the Essenes and the Therapeutae. Philo reported that the Therapeutae's central meal was intended to emulate the holy table...
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nome in Egypt. The writer, however, confines himself to describing the Therapeutae, a colony of hermits settled on Lake Mareotis in Egypt, where each lives...
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relationship between the Essaioi and Philo's Therapeutae and Therapeutrides. He regarded the Therapeutae as a contemplative branch of the Essaioi who...
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"Therapeutae"", Научно-теоретический журнал 2019 https://www.academia.edu/39841429/Traces_of_Buddhist_Presence_in_Alexandria_Philo_and_the_Therapeutae_...
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Karaite Judaism) Boethusians Second Temple Judaism Synagogal Judaism Therapeutae Yudghanites Zealots (Judea) Sicarii Kabbalah Non-Rabbinic Judaism Folk...
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with the Essenes. Harkavy and others sometimes identify them with the Therapeutae. Bana'im, another minor Jewish sect Hypsistarians Hemerobaptists, another...
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the Syrian Fools for Christ Pachomian monasteries Sinaites in Serbia Therapeutae Chryssavgis 2008, p. 15. Olupona, Jacob K. (2014). African Religions:...
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station where a prisoner is held Skete – Type of monastic settlement Therapeutae – Religious sect Cell at Merriam Websters Dictionary.com. Cell at dictionary...
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there were others before him. There were already ascetic hermits (the Therapeutae), and loosely organized cenobitic communities were described by the Jewish...
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Judaism History of the Jews in Gaza Jewish Christianity Synagogal Judaism Therapeutae Urman, Dan; McCracken Flesher, Paul Virgil (January 1998). Ancient synagogues...
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missionaries. The religious communities of the Essenes of Palestine and the Therapeutae of Alexandria may also have been communities based on the model of Buddhist...
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Alexandria describes an isolated Jewish monastic community known as the Therapeutae, who lived near Lake Mareotis. The Roman suppression of the Diaspora...
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Sadducees only accepted the Pentateuch (Torah). The Essenes in Judea and the Therapeutae in Egypt were said to have a secret literature (see Dead Sea scrolls)...
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have suggested that the pre-Christian monastic order in Egypt of the Therapeutae is possibly a deformation of the Pāli word "Theravāda", a form of Buddhism...
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period Judea and the Diaspora: Second Temple Judaism Hasideans Essenes Therapeutae Hellenistic Judaism Jewish Gnosticism Philo's Platonic philosophy influence...
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emerged at this time, such as the Early Christians in Jerusalem and the Therapeutae in Egypt. However, their status as Jews is unclear. The Books of the...
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Some scholars have identified the Maghāriya with the Essenes or the Therapeutae. see Nasoraeans see Elkesaites Nathaniel Deutsch writes: Initially, these...
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between Eastern Orthodoxy and Judaism Romaniote Jews Synagogal Judaism Therapeutae Walter, N. Jüdisch-hellenistische Literatur vor Philon von Alexandrien...
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