Saturday, October 19, 2024
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the very heart of the Palestinian problem
THE JEWS IN QUMRAN
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-jews-in-qumran-4273d695ab03
Robert Eisenman is
an adventurer who goes around and finds treasures in caves. His specialty is
the scrolls in old Hebrew he found in the caves around the Dead Sea, the famous
Dead Sea Scrolls, and today it is accepted that they must have been written and
deposited in these caves in the late half of the first century BCE and the
first half, a little bit more probably, of the first century AD. The Teacher of
this group seemed to be James, Jesus’s own brother, who was assassinated by the
High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem in the most horrible way you could
imagine. He was thrown over the walls and obliged to undress completely, which
is unacceptable in Jewish ethics. Then he had to dig his own vertical tomb, was
set in it, the head over the ground, buried up to the neck, and then stoned and
abandoned to die of thirst.
These documents show a perfect continuity with the Old Testament, which is not surprising, but also with the New Testament and the Gospels, which proves the continuity between Judaism and Christianity.
For me, the most surprising element is the presence, and very well developed what’s more, of the zealot ideology, a dogmatic vision of what Jews are supposed to be, absolutely dominated by and submissive to the Torah. Total fundamentalism that goes along with the elimination of those who are not perfect Jews, who are not even Jews at all like the Gentiles and the Arabs. This zealot ideology is very present in Islam, but it is also present in Judaism and even if in more subtle words in the modern world in Christianity. The three Abrahamic religions have inherited this from the old Torah tradition and the three religions have integrated it into their general preaching.
A phenomenal piece
of heritage that gives you cold shivers along your spine. We can really be
worried about this, about the future of our world.
Dead Sea Scrolls (Religi), * Dogmatism (epistemology), * Qumran, * The Fourth School of
Philosophy Zealots
