Re: The Pastorals
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:19 pm
Ben wrote:
This is similar to what Mk. 1:27 says about Jesus:
I don't think Josephus considered the Samaritans to be Jewish at all, so I figure that is why he does not count them as one of the Jewish sects. The key thing about "everything else" though (under the umbrella of the Fourth Philosophy) is that their ideas were new ("which we were before unacquainted"), which is why he refers to Fourth Philosophers as "innovators" and their doctrines as "innovations" (and which I think is reflected in the idea of the "new covenant" in the DSS and Christianity).The only reason Josephus' fourth category was so broad is that it was literally "everything else" after one had considered the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes. And you already pointed out that he omitted the Samaritans (unless they, too, ought to be considered part of the Fourth Philosophy).
This is similar to what Mk. 1:27 says about Jesus:
And as Lim notes:The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, "What is this? A new teaching, and with authority!
... the [Dead Sea Scrolls] sectarians and early church were the only ones to have used the concept of “the new covenant” from the prophecy of Jeremiah. Other Jews did not comment on “the new covenant” nor did they use it in their writings.
http://www.christianorigins.div.ed.ac.u ... t-seventy/