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the DSS are from the first century BCE Maybe the writings from the first century CE were important to them and they took them away from Qumran. And they stored only the older (or less important) stuff there. Is there general agreement that "the DSS are [ exclusively ] from the first century BC...

And about the Essenes. Josephus says they existed up to the first century CE. So if they wrote the DSS and the DSS are from the first century BCE, why did the Essenes stop writing, or if they still wrote then, why didn't they hide their first century CE writings with their earlier stuff? That's a g...

And about the Essenes. Josephus says they existed up to the first century CE. So if they wrote the DSS and the DSS are from the first century BCE, why did the Essenes stop writing, or if they still wrote then, why didn't they hide their first century CE writings with their earlier stuff?

Your favorites, "Fourth Philosophy" Jews, were revolutionaries, Rome haters. Jesus followers were not militant anti-Rome soldiers, not attractive to zealot fighters. Not all Fourth Philosophers were militant zealots (and Josephus doesn't call anyone "zealots" until the 60's CE)....

Your favorites, "Fourth Philosophy" Jews, were revolutionaries, Rome haters. Jesus followers were not militant anti-Rome soldiers, not attractive to zealot fighters. Sadducees were unlikely to convert to Christianity, if they kept to their view against resurrection. And their Torah-only ca...

Why don't we look at the big picture. What are the earliest references to Jannes and Jambres? The DSS and the NT. What were the earliest groups (that we know of) to have used 1 Enoch? The DSS sect and Christians. What were the only groups that we know of that used Jeremiah's concept of the New Coven...

... do now (then). Jannes and his brother were a danger to the leader Moses way back, and recently a similar danger confronted the leader Teacher of Righteousness, by Jannaeus and his brother (Absalom). (History may not exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes?) PS, later. The text of mine that John2 ...

... do now (then). Jannes and his brother were a danger to the leader Moses way back, and recently a similar danger confronted the leader Teacher of Righteousness, by Jannaeus and his brother (Absalom). (History may not exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes?) PS, later. The text of mine that John2 ...

My understanding is that "Jannes and his brother" in CD refers to Jannes and Jambres. ... Excellent post! I didn't realize this, so thank you. It really does make more sense to me now, that it was not Alexander Jannaeus and Absalom but Jannes and Jambres. So I agree with you on this. Of c...

... the time that Belial raised most wicked and powerful opponents against Moses and his brother and the writer’s present-day when the Teacher of Righteousness was opposed by the Wicked Priest, Jannaeus. In the Pseudepigrapha Jannes and Jambres (or Mambres) are sometimes given with both names—with ...