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Forerunners and rivals of Christianity, Vol. 1 (of 2

Note 527 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES

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Thus Jellinek, Ueber das Buch der Jubilaen und das Noah-Buch, Leipzig, 1855, passim, says that the Book of Jubilees is of Essene origin, and Schmidt and Merx, Archiv für wissenschaftliche Erforschung des Alten Testaments, I. II. (1868) pp. 111-152, make the same claim for the Assumption of Moses and so on. For the Book of Enoch itself see above.

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