John Deere

Spin:

Please cite where I "advocated the possibility that Josephus had access to the DSS".

Joe

spin

Your statement makes the implication.

You made the statement.

Your question was not an undirected one. When you ask "do you believe that he have a translator during his tenure?" you clearly have documents as a subtext (indicated by "translator"). These are documents in relation to Josephus's claimed stay with the Essenes. The quibbling about the context of your statement and implications of your question do not change their being made.

Your effort is to attempt to create a trajectory for the notion of the "righteous teacher" becoming involved in your Roman complot.

spin

What exactly do you understand by DSS?

John Deere

Spin:

Your statement:

"Your effort is to attempt to create a trajectory for the notion of the "righteous teacher" becoming involved in your Roman complot"

has piqued my curiousity.

Please expand upon your believe that the 'righteous teacher' is involved in my 'Roman complot"? For example, how?

Looking foward to your reply.

Joe

John Deere

Spin:

When I use the term "DDS" I am refering to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Joe

spin

I asked exactly. We all know what "DSS" stands for. Do you refer strictly to texts found at Qumran or to any copies of those texts whether found at Qumran or not (and I exclude other DS sites only for lack of relevance)?

spin

To come to a clearer understanding of the Roman wit I maintain exists in the Gospels, you may wish to view the Peshers among the DSS. For example, 1QpHab, in which the interpreter looks into his Scriptures for parallels of the travails that his ‘Righteous Teacher’ is suffering at the hands of the Romans. The Romans, evidentially, were amused by such superstition and decided to create a ‘Righteous Teacher’ whose life had ‘truly’ foreseen the visitation of the real ‘son of God’ – Titus Flavius, son of the deified Vespasian. The Flavians, who were perhaps not "geniuses" but seemed to at least possess a wry sense of humor, simply copied the Jewish ‘secret’ style of writing to ‘prophesize’ the truth – that Titus would destroy the messianic movement of Palestine – in contrast to the Peshers of the ‘false prophets’ who saw in their Scriptures a Jewish victory over Rome.

John Deere

Spin:

Note that the 'Righteous Teacher' I am referring to in the above post is "created" by the Romans. In your statement:

"Your effort is to attempt to create a trajectory for the notion of the "righteous teacher" becoming involved in your Roman complot"

are you referring to the 'righteous teacher" in the Scrolls or to the character I maintain the Romans created?

Joe

John Deere

Spin:

Only Qumran, not Murabba', Masada, or Daliyeh.

spin

What exactly does "such" refer to?