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  • From: "Robert Brenchley" <RSBrenchley AT aol.com>
  • To: corpus-paul
  • Subject: Re: mitzvot in Galatians?
  • Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:40:34


Lizbeth Fried writes:

>Prior to the destruction, the Jew understood God to require Temple
sacrifice.

Many Jews undoubtedly did, but the sectarian documents of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, such as the Manual of Discipline (sorry, I don't have the
reference to hand), replace Temple sacrifice by the 'offering of the lips'
(prayer), and works of the Law. This was a community or communities founded
by dissident priests who rejected the Temple as corrupt, and thus would be
unlikely, to say the least, to advocate sacrifice there.

Robert Brenchley

RSBrenchley AT aol.com




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