Guys, can anyone point me in the right direction or straight out tell me how we know that there were several apocalyptic preachers around the first century, in that particular middle-eastern region?
How can we say that the Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus were not the same historical person?
http://www.shareintl.org/archives/M_emer...eacher.htm
Impressive how one of the first scholars of the dead-sea scrolls came up with this comparison.
So... one can think that Jesus was:
1- Non-existent, but a re-imagining of the teacher.
2- Existent, a copy-cat of the teacher. (like Dupont-Sommer)
3- Independent from the teacher, but with curious coincidences.
4- The teacher was a made up figure, but Jesus was the incarnation of his ideals.
5- The son of God, while the teacher merely paved the road, but got no acknowledgment from the NT writers.
6- The son of God, while the teacher never existed beyond people's imaginations and writings.
etc...
What say you scholarly types? Aractus? Rocket?
How can we say that the Teacher of Righteousness and Jesus were not the same historical person?
Quote:In the spring of 1950 Andre Dupont-Sommer, Professor of Semitic Languages and Civilizations at the Sorbonne, presented to the academic community a paper about the Moreh ha-Zedek which caused a sensation.in
"Jesus," he claimed, "appears in many respects as an astonishing reincarnation of the Teacher of Righteousness. Like the latter, he preached penitence, poverty, humility, love of one's neighbor, chastity.... Like him, he was the Elect and the Messiah of God.... Like him, he was the object of the hostility of the priests.... Like him, he was condemned and put to death. Like him he pronounced judgment on Jerusalem, which was taken and destroyed by the Romans for having put him to death.... Like him, he founded a Church whose adherents fervently awaited his glorious return.... All these similarities -- and here I only touch upon the subject -- taken together constitute a very impressive whole."
It must be emphasized that Dupont-Sommer never suggested the Teacher of Righteousness was Jesus, but called him a prototype.
http://www.shareintl.org/archives/M_emer...eacher.htm
Impressive how one of the first scholars of the dead-sea scrolls came up with this comparison.
So... one can think that Jesus was:
1- Non-existent, but a re-imagining of the teacher.
2- Existent, a copy-cat of the teacher. (like Dupont-Sommer)
3- Independent from the teacher, but with curious coincidences.
4- The teacher was a made up figure, but Jesus was the incarnation of his ideals.
5- The son of God, while the teacher merely paved the road, but got no acknowledgment from the NT writers.
6- The son of God, while the teacher never existed beyond people's imaginations and writings.
etc...
What say you scholarly types? Aractus? Rocket?
