Teacher of Righteousness case as potential guide for some NT research
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2021 4:31 am
The Qumran-view Teacher of Righteousness (TR), imo, lived before the NT-mentioned individuals including John Baptist, James/Jacob, Jesus, Paul, and Pilate. Carbon 14 date ranges (with more results so far published only preliminarily) show that several Qumran manuscripts are older than the NT-writing era.
I, though I'm not the first, have given reasons to conclude that the TR was Judah the Essene and that the Qumran-view Wicked Priest (WP) was Alexander Jannaeus.
Instead of retyping my reasons (I am apparently a slower typist than some others here), let me give a link To "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene":
https://people.duke.edu/~goranson/jannaeus.pdf
If the identification of these three contemporary individuals (TR, WP, and Absalom) is valid--which itself is fair game--it could help show something on how subsequent writers treated later individuals.
I, though I'm not the first, have given reasons to conclude that the TR was Judah the Essene and that the Qumran-view Wicked Priest (WP) was Alexander Jannaeus.
Instead of retyping my reasons (I am apparently a slower typist than some others here), let me give a link To "Jannaeus, His Brother Absalom, and Judah the Essene":
https://people.duke.edu/~goranson/jannaeus.pdf
If the identification of these three contemporary individuals (TR, WP, and Absalom) is valid--which itself is fair game--it could help show something on how subsequent writers treated later individuals.