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Has anyone before proposed that
"Misdating Jesus to Jannaeus' era may be due to a confusion of Jesus with the Qumran Teacher of Righteousness, who did live during the time of Jannaeus" ?
Thanks.

Readers did not have to know a priori that Capernaum is in Galilee, since they are told so.
Your "Therefore" does not logically follow.

Christianity imo did not begin "with imperial sponsorship."

Though I have published on the three contemporaries, Jannaeus (Wicked Priest), Absalom (the acquiescent brother of Jannaeus), and Judah the Essene (Teacher of Righteousness), the proposal, "Misdating Jesus to Jannaeus' era may be due to a confusion of Jesus with the Qumran Teacher of Righteousn...

No, not clear.

Probably.

I don't know. Will have to research to see if he cared. Anyone already addressed this?

All four canon gospels draw on TaNaK; that is not disputed.
It is the claim that gMark was fiction and that gMatthew was fooled by gMark that is disputed.
That proposed disjuncture is not persuasive.

Not persuasive. Both draw on OT. No clear disjunction.

The Damascus or Zadokite Work was written before the time of Jesus.