Essenes

Jewish sect during the Second Temple period
Thing sect Q189204
Essenes
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Essenes

Summary

Essenes is a sect[1]. Essenes ranks in the top 9% of sect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,929 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Essenes is in the country of Ancient Rome[3].
  • Essenes is in the country of Hasmonean dynasty[4].
  • Essenes's instance of is recorded as sect[5].
  • Essenes's headquarters location is recorded as Qumran[6].
  • Essenes's Commons category is recorded as Essenes[7].
  • 200 BC marks the founding of Essenes[8].
  • Essenes was dissolved in 100[9].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[11].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[12].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[14].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[15].
  • Essenes's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[16].
  • Essenes's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'hbo', 'text': 'אסיים'}[17].
  • Essenes's P14483 is recorded as e/esenios[18].
  • Essenes's P14541 is recorded as 31abkT[19].

Body

Definition and Type

Essenes's instance of is recorded as sect[5].

Origins

200 BC marks the founding of Essenes[8].

Influence

Things named for Essenes include sprouted bread[20].

Why It Matters

Essenes ranks in the top 9% of sect entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,929 views/month).[2] Essenes has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Essenes is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Entities named for Essenes include sprouted bread[20].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikitolica.com. Retrieved . wikitolica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ang', 'ar', 'arz', 'az', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'da', 'de',
    Gnd id → 4153046-9
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 8w ago · Charp238 · 2026-08-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'hbo', 'text': 'אסיים'}
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1705]]: אסיים"
  3. 9w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → Jewish sect during the Second Temple period
    Harper's tag → essenes
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 5867
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: essenes, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289927076|essenes (#289927076)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 31abkT
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 2501
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 2501, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107284744|Essenes (#107284744)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary"
  6. 14w ago · Putnik · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → esenai
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P7666]]: esenai"
  7. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002282-esejci
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0002282-esejci, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  8. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-references:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P1343]]: [[Q138600930]], Cleanup: remove redundant reference URL (P854) ([[User:Difool/WikidataCleanup]])"
  9. 18w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → e/esenios
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14483]]: e/esenios, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779859433286"
  10. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → sect
    Headquarters location → Qumran
    Local thumb → —
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 13135, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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