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Re: Multiplicity of Scribal Hands
Jack Kilmon:
>Is it not possible that Essenes about the Middle East may have earned
their
daily bread copying and selling scripture?<
The immediate impact of this thought to me is, if it's viable, another idea
as to who the "scribes" of the NT were and why, although "everybody" knew
there were three major sects, the NT sects were P'rushim, Tz'doqim and
"scribes." Maybe, again if it flies, it might also move us close to
understanding how Josephus knew P'rushim, Tz'doqim and "Essenes"?
Neat thought I hope gets some airing.
Of course, "scribes" might also refer to the Qumran sect as those
Tz'doqim, as distinguished from the Greco- Roman Pseudo- Tz'doqim, who
advocated codifying halakhah?
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09:36:41 Y'rushalayim Time, 10/31/96
Yirmiyahu Ben-David, Paqiyd 16; Ra'anana, Israel
Q'hiylat Ha-N'tzarim
(Global Congregation of Nazarene Jews)
N'tzarim Virtual Community Center:
www.netvision.net.il/~netzarim
N'tzarim... Authentic
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