The significance of Sinai: traditions about Sinai and divine ed. George J. Brooke, Hindy Najman, Loren T. Stuckenbruck – 2008 p. 123 footnote: "Greek word 'Εσσενοι'", see Stephen Goranson, "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene" self-published on-line paper http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/jannaeus.pdf
