EARLY FORMS OF MONASTICISM (2): CENOBITISM
1. Cenobitism
cenobitic vs. eremitic (etymology = Gk koino + bi)
2. Precedents:
a) Essenes — Josephus (Jewish historian)
b) Dead Sea Scrolls (Hebrew and Aramaic), Qumran (map)
(See Josephus’s account of the Essenes)
(Aerial view of Qumran site)
(images of the scrolls from Library of Congress exhibition site)
