On 3 Mai, 00:02, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:
Some of my earliest inquiry here started with the DSS and included
the
> likes of Josephus. I still remember reading him in the 1950s and
> thinking: “How the heck can anyone claim there was a man JC???”
>
The Qumran ("Dead Sea") Scrolls are just one example of writings
originating from one of the many groups active in Palestine in the
1st. Century (most probably the Essenes, although not all experts
support this view). The "Teacher of Righteousness" is another
Messianic figure, like Jesus, or John the Baptist, or other Maccabean/
Zealot leaders, whose names no longer survive. In a slightly wider
context, the Nag Hammadi library shows another direction in which the
ideas and views and traditions of Jesus and other religious and and
philosphical trends took.
Apart from the truly excellent comedy, Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
is, in its inimitable over-the-top way, actually shows the chaotic
marketplace of religious smorgasbörd at the time pretty well ("... He
IS the Messiah! I should know, I've followed a few ...").
Francis
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