Re: Essene name

[Jack Kilmon <jpman@accesscomm.net>]

Ian Hutchesson wrote:
> 

> >
> >       I'll quote John Allegro in "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth"
> >1991 Promethues, p12:
> >
> >       "Although the name `Essene' was known only in its TRANSLITERATED Greek
> >forms, Essenoi, or Essaioi, there seemed good reason it represented an Aramaic,
> >ie Semitic, word meaning `physician' (asa, plural asayya), and reflected the
> >popular idea that these pious people, like Jesus and his followers, exercised
> >power over demons, an essential part of folk-medicine"

> Allegro is right: you ain't.

	What did I say different?

	
> 
> >
> >       Aramaic ASAYYA to Greek ESSAIOI. Sounds transliterated to me.
> Naaa. Asayya may be a transliteration of the Aramaic into Roman letters and
> Essene just might be a transliteration first from Aramaic into Greek then
> into Roman letters, but Essaioi ain't a transliteration of Asayya.

	Your grabbing at a straw....obviously you are aware that I cannot
write a posting in Hebrew characters.
> 
> >
> >       In short, I agree with Dr. Allegro.
> Yes, I agree with Allegro, but neither of us agree with you.

	Let me try to straighten this out. ASSAYA is and ENGLISH transliteration
of the Aramaic word (which I cannot write here) for which Essaioi was the GREEK 
transliteration.
> 
> >Since the Egyptian counterparts
> >of the ASAYYA called themselves a TRANSLATED "Therapeutae" it works for me.
> Now, this is a possibility.
> 
> IH

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