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By Florentino García Martínez, Florentino Garcia Martinez

ISBN-10: 9004176969

ISBN-13: 9789004176966

Even with the volume of literature at the dating among the useless Sea Scrolls and the recent testomony, no consensus one of the students has emerged as but on how one can clarify either the similarities and the variations one of the corpora of non secular writings. This quantity features a revised type of the contributions to an "experts assembly" held on the Catholic college of Leuven on December 2007 devoted to discover the connection one of the corpora and to appreciate either the commonalities and the variations among the 2 corpora from the viewpoint of the typical floor from which either corpora have built: the Hebrew Bible.

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Nickelsburg, Resurrection, Immortality, and Eternal Life in Intertestamental Judaism and Early Christianity (expanded edition; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006). towards a description of the sectarian matrix 29 a substantial section that has been conflated from his sources. But this passage on the resurrection seems genuinely independent. Among the scrolls, only 4Q521 speaks of a resurrection, “he will revive the dead” (‫)ומתים יחיה‬, but there is no clear indication that this reflected the sectarian viewpoint.

Jesus was apparently not a priest, whereas those connected with the Qumran community were either priests, or Levites, or thought of themselves in priestly ways, even as “a sanctuary of men (mqdsh ʾdm)” (4Q174 IV, 6). In his adult life Jesus seems to have addressed the disenfranchised and marginalized and to have kept an open table, whereas the movement epitomized by Qumran could afford to disenfranchise itself and restrict access to its pure things in a strictly hierarchical fashion,5 even using such access as a means of punishment within the group.

J. 22) or possessions (Philo, Apologia 4), but in using only what was needed and sharing all things with other members of the community. Philo describes them as “lovers of frugality” (ὀλιγοδείας ἐρασταί) and “those who shun extravagance” (πολυτέλειαν ἐκτρεπόμενοι Apologia 11), using a thick coat for winter and an inexpensive tunic for the summer. J. 126). The Essenes regime was unchanging (Philo, Apologia 11–12). J. J. 128–133). The day began before sunrise, during which time they prayed before going to work until the fifth hour.

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