Recognizing Yannai as the wicked priest and Judah the Essene (doer of torah)
as the teacher of righteousness will help us better understanding the roots of
what is later called in Greek heresy in the newly-added (attested to my
knowledge only post 70 CE) negative sense and what is likewise (attested post
70) called in Hebrew in the newly-added negative sense minut.
As historian I have to reject the above "idea" in good Joe Zias fashion as unhistorical, for unprofessional. Though it is doubtlessly possible to construct such a subhistory, part of a fictive subculture that is based upon inductive argumentation reflecting one-sided "written evidence", but only within the world of the dilettantes, and in so far the apologist as well as his "party" might be dismissed.
I'm sorry to state this, really.
_Dierk
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