Category: by David Flusser
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While the questioning of Jesus by the High Priest is itself deserving of a full treatment, our present concern is more restricted: we shall attempt to show how the famous Dead Sea Scrolls can shed new light on Jesus’ answer.
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(Matthew 5:3-12, Luke 6:20-26) In one of my articles1D. Flusser, “Blessed are the Poor in Spirit,” Israel Exploration Journal Vol. 10, Jerusalem, 1960, pp. 1-13. I tried to show the Essene background of Jesus’ Beatitudes, and at the same time succeeded in finding in the Thanksgiving Scroll (XVIII, 14-15) a passage, which not only comes…
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59 THESES by Prof. David Flusser, summer 1975* 1. Jesus was a Jew, lived the Jewish faith and died for it. He was “made under the law” (Gal. 4:4) and did not want to become a reformer of Judaism. 2. One can determine Jesus’s place in the contemporaneous Jewish streams. He has not preached and done…
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The discovery of the Essene Dead Sea Scrolls caused a revolution in research both of early Christianity and of Judaism. Many scholars thought that even the Sacrament of the Eucharist is Essene in origin. Is it not written in Josephus (Wars II, 129) that before their meal the Essenes purify themselves in cold water and…
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The following remarks are based on three criteria: 1) The observation of Robert L. Lindsey that the synoptic material, as preserved in Luke, was rewritten by Mark and that Matthew depends on Mark; 2) The importance of contemporaneous Judaism for the interpretation of the Gospels; 3) The simple truth that old wine is better than…
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