The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Personages of Earliest Christianity

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Algora Publishing, 2004 - 304 pages
Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Paleographical dating has tended to downplay the Scrolls' importance and to distance them from the personages of earliest Christianity, but a carefully worked out theory based on radiocarbon dating and other tests connects Scroll allusions to personages and events in the period from 37 BC to AD 71 and suggests a new view on how and why the Romans crucified Jesus. Part I of this study is an attempt to deal more realistically with the evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls; very few scholars have ever examined the period from 37 BC to AD 71 as the possible setting for the scrolls. Nevertheless, everyone would admit the existence of scroll allusions that only have real relevance in this time period. Part II takes up Jesus and the beginnings of Christianity.
 

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INTRODUCTION
1
WHO WROTE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS?
9
THE BAPTISM OF JOHN
18
JOHNS FOOD AND DRESS
41
THE FIRST ONES
49
ZADOK
63
JOHN THE BAPTIST
75
DOSITHEUS
85
THE FAMILY OF JESUS
167
MICROLETTERS
175
CHAPTER17 THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS
179
THE HYPOTHESIS
193
THE SLAVONIC JOSEPHUS
225
THE FATE OF THE SON OF JOSEPH
237
SIMON MAGUS
245
SAUL PAUL THE PILLARS AND THE TWELVE
255

THE HYMN SCROLL
115
THE KITTIM
125
THE LION OF WRATH
135
THE COMING VISITATION
145
KHIRBET QUMRAN AND THE SCROLLS
159
CHRISTIANITY
165
THE CREATION OF CHRISTIANITY
275
SUMMARY
283
BIBLIOGRAPHY
295
ARTICLES 299
297
INDEX
301
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