gnosis92

i am curious as to whether there exists any manuscript evidence from the dead sea scrolls which should support the mythical jesus theory that there was a community of first century jews who believed in a divine mediator figure, a purely spiritual figure, as described by doherty.

i am well aware of the essenes and dead sea scrolls speaking of a teacher of righteousness, how well does this correlate to mythical jesus hypothesis?

do mythical jesus theorists think paul was writing his letter to a community of essenes-turned christians?

mountainman

As a class of (shall we say) philosophy, the essenic wisdom historically
predates christianity, being extant in the first and second centuries BCE,
if we are to use Josephus and Philo as reliable sources:
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essene...philosophy.htm


IMO not well when considering the relationship of the Book of Enoch
(with its precedent appearance of the term "The Son of Man")
to the "essenic literature", and the fact that this book predates
the alleged historical commencement of "christianity".

That is precisely what the author of paul would like
MJ and HJ theorists to infer.

And in respect of the same belief in the same inference,
Eusebius makes reference to the therapeutae.


Pete Brown
www.mountainman.com.au