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False Christians?

Discussion in 'Christianity' started by geckopelli, Dec 8, 2004.

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  1. gnrm23

    gnrm23 Senior Member

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    the contents of the dead sea scrolls (taken from a deep-storage cache in a cave near qumran) have been pretty well examined...
    (these numbers are prolly "close") --- maybe 10-20% of the texts are indeed indentical to the hebrew scriptures (what christians call "the old testament"), & another 60-70% is more-or-less standard commentaries & interpretaions on the texts (mishnah?), & the remainder is material exclusive to the essene community (the sons of light vs the sons of darkness, the martyred "righteous teacher", the evil priest, etc.)...

    (& the qumran texts seem to be like other texts & fragments found in desert stashes & lost library relics from alexandria (egypt) to other finds in syria, turkey, and many other locations in the near east...)\



    possible term paper assignment for a religion 202 class:

    compare & contrast the polititcs, belief systems & eschatological expectations of the following jewish communitites from the early common era:
    sadducees
    pharisees
    zealots (sicarii)
    essenes (theraputae)
    gnostics
    hellenists
    followers of "the way" ("new-covenanters" = christians ---> both the jerusalem church (james & peter) AND the gentile churches (paul & timothy)...)



    mmmmmkay?
     
    gnrm23, Jan 4, 2005
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    ;)
     
    mosaicthreads, Jan 5, 2005
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