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Some
key doctrines
are found throughout
the Qumran writings: a
close examination of those individual texts
reveals differences in the doctrines and beliefs expressed in each.

What is the nature of these differences?

Is there a discernable conceptual evolution, or perhaps there were different aspects to their teachings?

What was the core position of the sect concerning the creation of new ideas within the Q-community?

The teachings of the sect - or at least some of them - were esoteric,
and never intended for Israel as a whole. Indeed, the members of the sect were commanded
to "hide the counsel of the Law in the midst of the men of injustice".

And yet, when the same member was afforded religious revelation of some kind,
it was forbidden to keep it to himself, lest the elders of the community be angry with him:
"And every matter hidden from Israel but which has been found out by the Interpreter,
he should not keep hidden from them for fear of a spirit of straying".

Flavius Josephus also mentions these two complementary rules:
according to his account, members of the Essens would vow "to conceal nothing from the members
of the sect and to report none of their secrets to others".

As for the rule requiring that members make available their discoveries to the broader community,
it is tied to the sect's historiosophy that the entire course of history, from arche to eschaton, has been divinely foreordained:
"Everything has been engraved before you with the stylus of remembrance for all the incessant periods and the cycles of the number of everlasting years in all their predetermined times,
and they will not be hidden, and will not be lacking from before you".

The history of the world has been foreordained, divided into a series of "times" or eras,
to the point that it is said of human beings
"You have shared out their tasks in all their generations".

One wishing to live according "to G d's will" must, then, adopt a series of changing attitudes,
each according to the events of his time, of his generation. He must, then,
"walk with everyone in the measure of the truth and the regulation of the time".

This is the reason for the positive approach toward the religious ferment within the community - it was seen as a means of calibrating the spiritual and practical position of the sect with the changing course of history. The occasional revelations of divine will that manifested themselves within the community provided guidance regarding the appropriate position to be adopted vis-a-vis the shifting conditions,
and it was the sect member's obligation to act accordingly.

It was incumbent upon him "to be united in the counsel of G d and walk in perfection in 'His sight', complying with all revealed things concerning the regulated times of their stipulations",
while the Q-sages were enjoined "to fulfill the will of G d in compliance with all revelation
for every perioed; he should acquire all the wisdom that has been gained according to the periods
& the decree of the period".

The practical outcome of the community's positive disposition toward the revelations occurring in its midst, was that the individual member supported the evolution of its sectarian doctrine, and even guided it.

Thus it is needless to say, the publication of individual views within the sect entailed a critique of the spiritual innovations of any individual member. The term 'straying' {'afgodisch' afwijken}
refers in the Qumran texts to a betrayal of the sect's covenant.

In the Manual of Discipline, the man is cursed who "enters this covenant,
and places obstacles of his iniquity in front of himself {'afgodisch aanbidden'} to stray,
"may he be cut off from the midst of all the sons of light because of his strying".

The Damascus Document distinguishes between those who 'stray' and those who 'hold fast'!

Of course, only innovations that did not break with the core beliefs of the sect could be accepted.

Josephus recounts that the Essene initiate vowed "to transmit their rules exactly as he himself received them", perhaps the oath alluded to in: "I do not exchange your truth for wealth, or for a bribe all your judgments" since "all who know you do not change your words";
i.o.w., met andere woorden:
dit slaat ook precies op Yehosjoea's "attitude" t.a.v. de visioenen e..d.
van zijn hemelse Vader, zijn interpretatie van 'de Profeten', 'de Psalmen', 'de Wet' &
zijn uitleg aan zijn discipelen gedurende die drie {?} jaar rondom zijn dertigste {?} levensjaar -
hij neemt ze serieus en past ze toe op zijn eigen tijd en omstandigheden, betrekt ze op zichzelf,
zijn leerlingen en 'de massa's armen', verkondigt ze door zijn 'daden van genezing & verzoening',
in de synagogen en in de Tempel, in de berg- & veldreden, in de z.g. "Tempelreiniging",
'zegenspreuken & doemvloeken' - op 'n heel
EIGEN
wijze [naar de mening van tijdgenoten 'gezaghebbend'!]?

Heeft hij de jaren voor zijn publieke optreden innig contact gehad met 'de Essenen'?

De vermoedens omtrent allerlei connecties & ontmoetingen met diverse groepen
BUITEN
'tsaddoekiem/sadduceeen', 'proesjiem/farizeeen' & 'die andere' onderverdelingen van 't volk zijn
onmiskenbaar aanwezig: die kennis van 'de Schriften', 'de Gelijkenissen',
het 'he{i}lend optreden tussen & onder al die bevolkingsgroepen duiden onmiskenbaar op grote mensenkennis, voorzichtigheid, slimheid
en uebergrote eerlijkheid!

Je
kunt niet
jarenlang rondtrekken
'in die streken'
zonder ter dege op de hoogte te zijn
van wat er allemaal speelde
tussen Joden, Grieken, Herodianen, Romeinen, Arabieren
& alle andere 'sekten'
& gekten!

Hij spreekt Sjim'on Petros
aka Kefas bestraffend toe als hij overdrijft,
spoort Yehoedah Isjkariot aan om te doen wat hij niet kan laten,
hij leert, corrigeert, moedigt aan, doorziet, vergelijkt, neemt risico's met 't
"overbekende" gevolg?!

De "Paus" kan
wat mij betreft 'de pot op'
net als die reformatorisch protestantse scherpslijpers, betweters, afsplitsers, ophemelaars, rituelenverrichters, volle evangelie gebedsgenezers & griezelige Amerikaanse pinksterfiguren,
abc-wapenliefhebbers, schuilkelderfanaten
& populistische shitlui!

Genoeg!
Dit myDiverhaaltje is weer eens
voor de zoveelste keer veel te ver aan 't uitlopen?
Straks grijpt de CIA/AIVD of 'n Russisch/Chinees
'allescontrolerend supervirus' in &
stuurt 'onwelgevalligheden' de
mist weer
in
...