Deciphering the Messiah code in practice within the Scroll community will be the key to understanding the Gospels and the nature of the NT Messiah.
Well before Wise, different writers have been finding or looking for convincing connections between the Scroll community and the Gospel community, encouraged by the many similarities in terms of dogma, organization and lexicology. Dupont Sommer already...
Lire la suiteMark Gibbs of Singapore inspired the title of this article. His assumptions are interesting but need to be tidied up. First of all, most if not all the sectarian scrolls were written before the fist decades of the common era when no Christians, even officially,...
Lire la suiteWhat is the drive in the Qumran text? The battling Messiah in the Aramaic Apocalypse (Q246) , dated to the last quarter of the first century BC, was initially understood as a Davidic figure (E. Puech), then as a heavenly character (Florentino Garcia Martinez)...
Lire la suiteThe author's standpoint is important to consider when opening a book on nascent Christianity. I have read kilometers of lines published in books that present the topics or pretend to have resolved the problems. And one gets quite nauseated at the material...
Lire la suiteEgyptian history has a great appeal and traveling to the land of the Nile is usually the reason or opportunity to visit bygone Pharaohs, their gods and temples. Gods with eagle heads, lion heads, crocodile heads and even monkey or ibis. A complete zoo...
Lire la suite"Ideas that don't disturb are unworthy of being called ideas" claimed Oscar Wilde. I have ideas that are going to seriously disturb any tranquil acceptation of the NT narratives. Questioning the Bible, a revised assessment of the Dead Sea Scrolls' Messiahs...
Lire la suiteThe tandem Messiahs of the Scroll community designated community clans. The Priestly Messiah was the flag of the Qumran avant-garde that was contesting Temple teachings while the David Messiah was the traditionalist's banner. The more adventurous and...
Lire la suiteI found the comment, "And these were composed in a community called Essene before being called Christian (Epiphanius)", a bit perplexing. Is the contention that Paul's letter were written by the Essene community? answers: According to Acts the first community...
Lire la suiteNT revision in the line of Earl Doherty is based on the belief that Paul wrote before the Gospels. Doherty shows that Paul depicts a heavenly Christ (a myth) that has no connections with the Gospels. Jesus was later transformed into a man by the evangelist...
Lire la suiteIn the background of the OT and the rise of the Jerusalem Temple Project, we find an opposition between Judea and Israel, The Southern Temple against the Northern shrines, Moses against Aaron. Both groups belonged to Abraham inspired traditions and both...
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