Rattle my bones: juggle my balls & fly high & low!


Forwards
and back to
the Sadducees/Tsaddukim,
Pharisees/Prushim, Zealots/Kana'im, Essenes/Chassidim
and all those other groups like Samaritans/Shomronim, Greeks/Jewanim
& Romans/Roma'im/Kittim a.s.o. Christian roots can thus even be found within
the scriptures & scrolls of the famous Dead Sea community & their library of which many fragments - including a number of complete scrolls - were discovered since only about sixty years ago
in & around the caves of Qumran and some surrounding locations. I really loved
to walk and climb around those lonely desert places in the second half
of the sixties and surrounding areas some 400 meter below sealevel
where fresh water comes out of rocks on the shores of the Dead Salt
Sea located in the Great Rift Valley that stretches downwards
from the mount Hermon range between Syria, Levanon
and Kana'an or Israel/Palestine as it was called
by migrating conqerors, nomads, settlers
& migrants for the last thousands of
years on the landbridge between
Africa & the rest of the world:
the belly~button of
the whole wide
world!!

There
is little question
that this group in question
was the 'Essenes', one of the three Jewish schools
of the Second Temple period, who are among others also discussed
in the works of Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria, Jewish "historians
& philosophers" that also lived about two thousand years ago and so it is relatively easy
to prove that the Qumranites were [among others] the Essenes, both as a matter of
overall identification, & in detailed minute investigation during the past fifty years.
One of the criteria for this identification was the presence of some key doctrines
in the Dead Sea Scrolls that are cited as Essene by Josephus:
the doctrine of double predestination
and the demand
of every member
'to share his
property'.

That
'double predestination'
is a central religious~philosophical
doctrine with important ramifications for the economic
ideology of Qumran. The concept of free will is widely held to be
one of great achievements of Juda-ism - without entering into the complications
that arise from the juxtaposition of free will and a single,
omniscient "G d" that
'governs all!

I admit
that I too
have a very difficult time
imagining this form of Judaism
that does not maintain a mutual dialogue
between mankind & its supposed creator however,
we must bear in mind the logical difficulties alluded to
just now: how can man possess 'free will'
when "G d" knows everything
and determines
the course of
events?

This is
not the place
to enter into this discussion,
but these issues are still important inasmuch as they can help us
to understand the position of socalled divine predestination, which radically limits
or even negates man's free choice: this was thus also the position of the socalled "Essenes" @ Qumran. Josephus discusses the Essene doctrine of divine predestination,
and we also can find now explicit discussion of it
in the Dead Sea Scrolls
themselves.

According
to Josephus,
the three main Jewish schools of his day
were divided on this matter. As noted, the Essenes believed
in an absolute divine predetermination:
'man is totally helpless'
in the face
of "G d's
decrees".

The Pharisees
- who fathered later Rabbinic Judaism
in its development from its origins to the present
- accepted the idea of divine scriptural providence, but held held that man is,
in some sense, "G d's partner". That is, mankind is given the power
to influence and even alter events, in accordance with his behavior
- be it through repentance and all kinds of good deeds,
or through his transgressions.

The Sadducees,
the third group, took a completely
different tack, arguing that any divine supervison
is extraneous, since man is responsible for his deeds
and also for the ensuing results. Thus Yehoshua found himself
during those thirty three {?} years of his life exactly
in the middle of 'all that' & much more.
That also was what Shapo
& the "euangelists"
were writing
about
...

Do have
a nice sunny
sunday, don't burn, burst,
catch a cold or churn but tell us all about it
if you really want to do so, after all the mains questions
in our lives still center around genetic & psychedelic ueber issues &
all that we seem to be able to do about it by our own ways of thinking,
feeling, acting & choosing from the days of our births up till the day
we die ~ what causes our birth & determines our death ~
and what can we do inbetween our beginning
and our ending?

Those
were also
the main questions
Yeshua was talking [and acting!] about
in his travels inbetween the Hermon & the Sinai,
the Mediterranean Sea & the Great Rift Valley in which those
Yardeenriver waterflows were finding their way from snowcapped mountainranges
deep down to G d's Great Salt Lake of Sodom
& Qumran endlessly illustrated by old
testament stories &
new testament
gospelbooks
...
engel



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