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Charles, my post explicitly addressed Hasmonean history.

Also by Abner of Burgos.

Teacher of Righteousness was mentioned by Karaites, and not only by them.

Andrew, as you know, we don't have all traditions that were available to some ancients. For example, text finds near Jericho mentioned by Origen (and that same find may have also been later mentioned by Joseph [of Tiberias?] in Hypomnestikon and also the many texts mentioned by 9th-century Timothy I...

Compare Judah in 1QpHab 8:1-3

Anyway, I think he was too late to be the Qumran-view Wicked Priest, because
a) paleographic estimates
b) C14 date ranges
c) analysis of contemporaries
d) personal characteristics, or lack
and because
e) Alexander Jannaeus was already the Wicked Priest.

"fondness" and "Wicked Priest"--hmm.

Qumran texts tell of a conflict between the Wicked Priest and the Teacher of Righteousness, and also mention that Absalom did not help the Teacher when he was aggrieved. I think the Wicked Priest was Alexander Jannaeus. (Strabo, Geography 16.2.34-46, while favorable toward Moses and followers, also ...

The civil war between his father and his uncle split the populace, so a claim that the masses supported him is iffy. Also, the proposal, which I think is mistaken, that he was called "The Wicked Priest" in 4QpesherNahum, if you accept it, hardly helps your story. And, if he was spur for NT...

Many of the earliest churches, evidently, were house-churches, so the owner of the house allowed that use, with, in some cases, modifications to the house. Yet, on the other hand, there are indications of community sharing of property. Qumran is an earlier example of community of possessions. People...