Subject: Re: FW: Re[8]: Methods in biblical scholarship
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:56:01 -0500
At 08:58 AM 12/29/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>The Sadducees and Essenes, which some scholars say are different branches
of the same
>philosophy, based their outlook on the Temple. They had no stragegy for
surviving the
>Temple's destruction. On the other hand, the Pharisees did. If, indeed,
it is later
I would here have to disagree. The DSS are filled with tirades against the
temple as it was. They seemed to be independant of the temple.