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To me, "born of a woman" reads as human.

I’m not sure I can fully answer the questions. One limitation is that though we have considerable Qumran Hebrew (as well as other, older texts found there), we have little contemporary non-Qumran Hebrew to compare with. Rather, mostly earlier (e.g., eventually Biblical) and later (e.g., Mishnaic Rab...

Elisha Qimron in his revised 2018 volume, A Grammar of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, page 35: “It has been claimed that DSS Hebrew occasionally uses archaistic features [footnote: For instance, Kutscher, Isaiah, p. 327] Some archaistic features are also sporadically used in one scroll or anoth...

Also, if I recall correctly, comparisons of James 1:22, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves” and some of the Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs.

As you may know, Ben, this year in Hugoye, there’s a review by Grigory Kessel of J.-C. Haelewyck, ed., Histoire de Zosime sur la vie des Bienheureux Réchabites: les versions orientales et leurs manuscrits
https://hugoye.bethmardutho.org/review/hv23n1prkessel

Does an opinion about narrative prove a negative? Neveryoumind.

Since "Spin," as far as I know, has not published the article, it is difficult to know what anyone is agreeing with, except that maryhelena and that author--sometimes hard to tell them apart--apparently agree often.

Giuseppe wrote: “The ethymology of Essaios is Baptizer. Proved by GRÄTZ also.” Graetz did make an etymological proposal, meaning “bathers” (rather than baptizers), but if I recall correctly, he proposed that it came from Aramaic in a *hypotherical* and *unattested* form. This is not poof. Who did th...

Giuseppe wrote: “....Josephus knows only three philosophies + the Fourth Philosophy (=Zealots): scribes, pharisees and essenes. Therefore: essenes == followers of John.”
Josephus knows of Sadducees.
Essenes existed before John the Baptist.

If interested: Steve N. Mason, “What Josephus Says about Essenes in his Judean War,” in Stephen G. Wilson and Michel Desjardins, eds., Text and Artifact in the Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Peter Richardson (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000), 434-467. But ...