On 31 Aug 2009 at 7:42, James Read wrote:
Yeah,
I think you're right David. There seems to have been quite a lot of
this kind of thing. Too many conclusions from so little evidence. We
basically have a library of manuscripts kept in a safe location. It
could well have been just one very zealous individual hoping to keep
the scrolls safe from some kind of disaster.
I think some have even suggested that this may have been an early
Christian fleeing from a besieged Jerusalem that put the scrolls
there
in a safe place. Some of the texts even seem to have Christian ideas
in them. Like the wicked priest and the righteous teacher. I know
there is a lot of debate over who the wicked priest is and who the
righteous teacher is but it has to be admitted that there are
parallels to be found with Christian teachings.
James,
The parallels are such as might be found in most any offshoot-Judaic sect, especially with
regard to morality etc. The whole wicked priest thing is so vague that I don't base anything
at all on it; the pure fact is, we haven't a clue what they meant.
As for the idea that this was a single person, Christian or otherwise, fleeing Jerusalem to try
and keep a corpus of books safe, I can't go that way. If we had found a moderate number of
documents in one or two caves, maybe. 800 documents in 11 caves? I think not.
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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