Bart Ehrman
There is nothing in the Dead Sea Scrolls about John the Baptist.
Steefen
Robert Price made some interesting concepts about the Dead Sea Scrolls and John the Baptist. I was watching this 26 minute video last night:
Jesus was a composite character of historical fiction, but if I were to address the possibility that Jesus was a unique, biological person, I would look for him being baptized by John the Baptist, if not the Teacher of Righteousness, a teacher of righteousness.
I put forward not only Dr. Robert M. Price but also Robert Eisenmann for this hold out theory on there being a single, biological person named Jesus. The gospels mention Pontius Pilate but there is no catch to the historical Pontius Pilate since Pilate had a Samaritan Redeemer killed and Jesus, in the gospels says nothing about Pilate using the funds of his father’s house for aqueducts and says nothing about Jews who bared their necks to Pilate.
I love the way Price calmly waits at the beginning for the interviewer to get out his stumbling inarticulate question. Price is an entertaining figure, nimbly mixing his whimsy with somewhat more scholarly views. I would hate for him to be someone’s only source of information for the development of early Christianity.
Interesting at 5:56 and following how he undermines his own mythicism. There were swarms of these apocalyptic folks…like Jesus and his disciples maybe?
The real problem with mythicism is their perception of NT theology and history is stuck in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are willing to speak across entire fields of inquiry and expertise without understanding current scholarship in those fields at all. It would never occur to this guy to interview an actual Qumran scholar even if he knew of one. He knows Price will tell him what he wants to hear.
Although Jesus Christ is not mentioned by name in the Dead Sea Scrolls, he is nevertheless alluded to in some of the documents therein:
“The Son Of God” (4Q246) (Plate 4)
Column 2
(1) He will be called the son of God; they will call him son of the Most High. Like the shooting stars . . . (5) His Kingdom will be an Eternal Kingdom, and he will be Righteous in all his Ways. He [will jud]ge (6) the earth in Righteousness, and everyone will make peace. The sword shall cease from the earth, (7) and every nation will bow down to him. As for the Great God, with His help (8) he will make war, and He will give all the peoples into his power; all of them (9) . . . His rule will be an Eternal rule, and all the boundaries…” (cf. the “4Q541″ Fragment)!
Steefen
The jury is out so far as I am concerned about whether there is an allusion to Jesus or the gospels writers used Dead Sea Scroll terminology. As the biblical Jesus was a disciple of John the Baptist, not necessarily the historical Jesus, going back to the community of John the Baptist is writers’ work for creating the gospels.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English, Second Edition
Florentino Garcia Martinez
The Damascus Document
Col. XI disagrees with Jesus about pulling an animal out of a ditch on the Sabbath
pages 41-42
Col. XII … And all the locusts, according to their kind, shall be put into fire or into water while they are still alive, as this is the regulation for their species. … page 43
The Temple Scroll
Col. XLVIII, 4-5 … Of your winged insects, you can eat: the locust and its species, the bald locust and its species, the cricket and its species, the grasshopper and its species. These you can eat from among winged insects: those which crawl on four paws, which have the hind legs wider than the forelegs in order to leap over the ground with them and to fly with their wings.
page 168
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