tussen mydikribbe & ~kruis: werelden van verschil



Strange
how a study
of certain religious sects
can become the main interest
in someones life
for so long.

The discovery
of Dead Sea Scrolls,
whose authors were apparently the socalled "Essenes",
has generated many new insights into different areas of the study of ancient Judaism,
and will undoubtedly continue to do so. Before, during & after the Six Day War
in the springtime of 1967
I found myself drawn
to Qumran.

First time
I crossed the border
was via Mandelbaumgate
in order to be able to visit
what was left
in ruins.

The
most fantastic
experience proved to be
completely alone among leftovers
of almost 2000 years
"monotheism"?

In the following years
I tried to read about it as much as I could:
the puzzles & labyrinths seem to start to fit together
better than ever before including all those 'arrests',
'imprisonments', 'deportations'
a.s.o.!

Body,
mind &
circumstances jumped into
holes of 3000/4000 years {& more}
of history and human
experiences
...

It is particularly worth noting
that the discovery of these Scrolls provides us with the earliest known examples
of this ancient sectarian literature, and therein lies their import, as research tools into the social and
religious underpinnings
of the sects.

The
material that
has been published
thus far does not provide us
with a comprehensive picture of the spiritual evolution of the sect,
but with every new publication we are able to piece together
a fuller picture of the religious ferment
within the sect.

The
publication
of all the scrolls in Hebrew
& many other languages is now widely available,
sheds new light on the spiritual dilemmas of the sect,
and it seems to me that we can now hazard a preliminary reconstruction
of the spiritual development
of the Qumran
community.

Most
studies assumed
that these sectarian writings
found in the Qumran caves were produced by a 'single' group.
It seemed evident that they belong to the library of the
community whose remains have been excavated,
and that these texts all refer
to select groups, outside
of which there was
no salvation.

It
can also
give us a
taste of what went
on in those times and places and
proved to be of such great influence during following ages
all over the world among almost all peoples
of the earth. Facts & fictions seem
to belong together during our
whole life: that is
how we create
all else
...

I can't imagine my life
without all of these more or less
well known stories about
our origines &
follow ups
...

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