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        <title><![CDATA[Chris Albert Wells: The Scrolls' Messiah Code.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ 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. 
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    <title><![CDATA[Here a Messiah, there a Messiah, everywhere a Messiah. Old McTeacher had a farm.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chris albert wells]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Scrolls were written by ennemies of early Christianity, by followers of J. the Baptist]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://chrisalbertwells.over-blog.com/article-the-baptist-53373876.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Mark 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,... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chris albert wells]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Son of God and Son of the Most High.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What 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)... ]]></description>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[chris albert wells]]></dc:creator>
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    <title><![CDATA[Scholarly subjectivism.]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://chrisalbertwells.over-blog.com/article-scrolls-and-gospels-are-related-but-52923257.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Laugh your head off!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Egyptian 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ideas that disturb.]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://chrisalbertwells.over-blog.com/article-hat-disturb-52747172.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Putting two and two together.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Is the contention that Paul's letters were written by the Essene community?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Confronting the Mythicists]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[NT 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[7. Quarrels in Qumran?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[6. What did the invented Qumran Messiahs stand for?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[5. What does Messiah mean?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[4. Scrolls and Gospels are related, but how?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Scholars 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.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[3. Qumran: a sacerdotal gang of peaceful hooligans.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[2. Connecting the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospels.]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[There 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.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[1. The Gospel's eyewitness theory is blind]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[You 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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Welcome to OverBlog]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["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... ]]></description>
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