Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?

[MadDannyWest]

Found this channel and was like "I wonder if he has a video on the dead sea scrolls"

Oh, it's literally the first video.

[kevinforbesofficial]

I dated an ancient document once, but it didn't work out.

[algoenespanol]

Was the person who “accidentally” shattered the pottery named Link?

[NateFord]

I had to search for way too long to find a video on the Dead Sea scrolls that wasn’t 2 hours of sensationalist nonsense. Thank you for the concise, academic video.

[estycki]

Oh snap just discovered this channel - so interesting <3

[elbertderf]

i think some dead guys wrote them although i could be wrong.

[dianastevenson]

One problem with the idea that the scrolls were written by the Essenes and some of them survived the Roman massacre of 68-70 CE is that NOBODY went back for the scrolls. That's why we were able to find them nearly 2, 000 years later. The Romans were utterly ruthless. Whichever community or group wrote the scrolls was completely wiped out - otherwise they would surely have gone back to retrieve them. I find it desperately sad to think they weren't even able to tell someone where the scrolls were hidden.

[domwings]

This guy deserves way more subscribers

[dariabirk]

just found your channel and i think it’s awesome

[melodygn]

OMG you look so young! Lol and sooo dramatic! Changing angles and everything!

[LarsPallesen]

Great stuff! Very good explanations. Thank you for your work.

[scottmorgan]

Thank you dear brother. Intelligence is rare these days. Well done and may God bless your mission. Maranatha.

[Actuary]

You are vastly overstating the Essene case. Some scholars believe the pools were used for pottery production, as tens of thousands of pottery fragments were found on site. Only a handful of the pools met the criteria for actually being ritual bath sites.

Also possible that the scrolls have nothing to do with the community at Qumran, and were deposited by Jewish refugees fleeing the Roman army.

[JamesLoweryHypnotherapy]

I may be mistaken, but I do not believe the inhabitants of Qumran referred to themselves as Essenes. I believe they self-identify as Zadokites. Also, on top of this, what is your opinion that the community was one and the same as the Boethusians? By this I also mean to ask what is your opinion that this community represented Boethusians, Zadokites, Sadducees, Hasmoneans, Herodians, and Essenes; since it appears that a study of the initial term "Boethusian", and its corresponding political dynasty, shows evidence that all all of these terms became blended? Also who is the "Teacher of Righteousness" within the War Scroll? Since the Boethusian dynastic line appears to have derived from Alexandria, should we be looking to Alexandria for the "Essene" connection to Christianity; if there is one? Also, the contents of the War Scroll indicate that the inhabitants at Qumran might not have been so pacifistic as one might think. If this is the case, could they not have formed a splinter-group to then have been characterized as that of the Zealots, reported by Josephus? This group, also known as the Sicarii (Judas "Iscariot" may be an anagram for Judas Sicarios) were led by Judas the Galilean and his second-in-command, the high priest Zadok. Judas the Galilean appears to have created the "Fourth Philosophy"; an apparent blend of "Essene" and Pharisaic theological tenets. Is it, at least possible, that the Zadok in connection to Judas the Galilean, was conflated with that of the founder of the Zadokites/Boethusians? Is it also possible that this group of Zealots, or the Boethusians rather, were linked with the Edessan monarchy and the wife of King Abgar V? I ask this because it is that this wife Helena inherited land that had been given over to the Zadokites three generations earlier due to her relationship with Eleazar ben Pacorus, and the male lineage to follow.

[jessicalea]

Thank you for your videos shines a lot of light!

[JamesLoweryHypnotherapy]

Also, I`d like to add that there seems to be the idea that the Dead Sea Scrolls do not bare as much importance to biblical scholarship, as say, the Nag Hammadi Library. I can see where this would be so. After all, it is not till Irenaeus writing around 185CE that one even has mention of the "canonical" gospels as being in circulation; let alone representing a four-count corpus of material.

There is also the fact that the oldest New Testament fragment, known as Papyrus P52, dates to no earlier than 125CE.

However, around the time these "heretical" (Irenaeus coined the term because the Marcionite church and that of the Valentinians outnumbered that of the proto-orthodox church [read David Brakke] sects were being challenged by Irenaeus, there existed also incantation bowls to be used with symbolic oil (chrism); as well as that of the Greek magical papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt.

Since the Boethusians have already been linked to Alexandria, and possibly the Qumran community, is it possible that the rites and theological tenets of these areas, which were apparently of a fertilic-efficacious nature, became assimilated into the eventual magical-sexual practices that were meant to ward of divine harlots such as Lilith; as well as the sexual practices of the "Gnostics"?

In regards to the "Gnostics", it appears that they practiced magical-sexual practices which were meant to imitate celestial syzygys. One can see such practices illustrated in the Gospel of Phillip and its connection to the "bridal chamber".The fact that the beliefs of the "Essenes" might have carried over into this form of worship perhaps corresponds to the fact that they are linked to the Boethusians and Alexandria.

Philo of Alexandria calls them "Theraputae", or physicians, respectively. He also alludes to this priesthood as it were, emanating from Alexandria.

[yuritomassen]

Lovely to think the actual people escaped the Invasion and went on to have descendants among the Diaspora! Perhaps there are even traces of their distinctive ideas & practices showing up in the later times?

[marshawoods]

I feel there is a lot more they don't know than they do know.

[Abdullah..........]

You've come a long way man. Way to go. Why don't you make a video with Paul from the "Blogging Theology"?. It'd be so interesting

[Magik]

The Essenes were a Jewish Messianic sect. There is evidence that James the Just mentioned in Acts was the brother of the "Teacher of Righteousness" mentioned in the scrolls. Paul was at odds with James the Just, who was murdered by being thrown off the Temple wall to his death. The Essenes are the most likely candidates for the origins of Christianity.