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.
Giving the Teacher of Righteousness a messianic stature ensured a leadership continuity within the orphaned community. The sacred alliance is saved! The Teacher is his own successor. Within the community context, what do the later double Messiahs mean...
Lire la suiteThe word originally meant the anointed one. The Greek translation is Christos. Christianity is therefore a Messiah-driven religion that comes from Palestine. In the old days, kings were anointed by priests, giving them a divine approval within the officiating...
Lire la suiteScholars and Church officials agree that there is a lot in common between the scroll community and early Christianity. The striking affinities have even forbidden the Church to continue claiming that Christianity was a revealed religion without antecedents....
Lire la suiteI am deliberately using the word "Gang" for Qumran because they were against the established authorities. A gang is defined by a territory and a leader. The two of them define a dominance program. Destroy one or the other, and the gang will be in serious...
Lire la suiteThere is no evidence of Jesus within the sectarian scrolls and the Teacher of Righteousness would not have recognized himself had he been presented to Jesus. The connecting system between the two writings is much more subtle than previously recognized....
Lire la suiteYou won't immediately understand because the ideas are too new and break away from all traditional assumptions. But brain teasers are fun. Start by putting aside all you have learnt to repeat! The Gospels, contrary to all that is generally accepted, do...
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"Ideas that do not disturb are unworthy of being called ideas" (Oscar Wilde). If you give a scholar a fragment of a text, he will be able to analyze it beautifully. It is domain of expertise. But if you forward a global question: "What were the evangelists...
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