Teacher of Righteousness case as potential guide for some NT research

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StephenGoranson
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Teacher of Righteousness case as potential guide for some NT research

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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.
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Re: Teacher of Righteousness case as potential guide for some NT research

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Agreed, Stephen. Especially Judas is of interest. Aristobulus, Hyrcanus II: there is something there

Thank for the link, I'll be reading it with great attention

The great divide between gospels and Romans ff is evident: no priest whatsoever in the latter, save for a ton in Hebrews

viewtopic.php?p=119256#p119256

They really are two sides of a coin, from two different eras perhaps, but certainly from two different viewpoints
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