Word: asceticism
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The problems that he raises are the most important part of his essay. Most revealing are the changes in standards of beauty that he chronicles. The mathematical and detached nude of classical Greece decays with change in attitude toward the flesh, into the bulbous and ascetic shapes of medieval art...
It is now assumed as almost certain that they were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect hitherto known chiefly from the accounts of Josephus and Philo. Much information about the Dead Sea covenanters is contained in the original scrolls (now in the Hebrew University just across the bristling boundary from the...
¶ Another ingenious line of thought reasons that the Teacher was one Eleazar, in the reign of Simon's son, John Hyrcanus (134 to 104 B.C.). Hyrcanus, according to the Jewish historian Josephus, was friendly to the anti-Hellenist Pharisees ("Separators") who clung to the old ways. Once Hyrcanus...
This is not to say that there was no connection between the Essene community at Qumran and the first Christians. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness near Qumran at a time when the community was flourishing; he was, like the covenanters, an ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey...
When the proclamation announcing Franco's fourth Cabinet in 20 years (the others: 1936, 1945, 1951) appeared three days later, the big surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain'...