This will be some food for thought (and for further research) for our readers that have invested in the
Abrahamic Religions and have questions that their religion cannot or will not ever answer.
I have a wonderful book in my possession, called "
Antignosis, the Crutches of Capitalism" (anti-gnosis means anti-knowledge) and written by
Lily Zographou, a charismatic scholar that was so unconventional she is called
The Dark Goddess Hecate of Greek Literature. Unfortunately, this book exists only in Greek (and I think in German) and its author is dead. Fortunately, this book can be found
online. Fortunately, because the historical, archeological, sociological and political research put in this book is compelling and overwhelming.
This book analyses the
Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in the caves of Qumran in the land of Palestine during 1947-1956, and shows how the Jews were facing extinction in the progressive conditions of those times, due to Hellenisation that begun with Alexander the Great. At some point in time, the priesthood of Judaism manipulated Judeo-Christianity, through which
Capitalism was created taking the place of
Feudalism. Bottom line is that the Dead Sea Scrolls are not helpful all that for Judaism or Christianity (nor for Islam), since in their presence the Abrahamic Myths are demolished. The Scrolls do exist and prove that at least the Old Testament existed, or at least parts of it, in the time of Jesus.
Thanks to The Dead Sea Scrolls, we also learn the whereabouts of Jesus during his age of 12 to 30, something that the Church still refuses to reveal, and
what he really was: Jesus was a high ranking member of one the four sects of Judaism called the
Essenes that had their own militia, the members of the other sect called the
Zealots. The other two sects were the powerful and hypocritical
Pharisees and the
Sadducees.
Jesus being a high ranking Essene, also explains why he was highly educated, even though he was born to a carpenter family. Jesus, or "
Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef" as he was actually called in his times, meaning "
Excellent Joshua, son of Josef" ("Rabbi" was a title of honor and ownership, meaning "Excellent" or "Great" until the end of the first century CE; after that it was used as a title for the priests of Judaism).
Now, regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls, they are not an imaginary entity. They can be seen and be read even
online. The Sectarian manuscripts reveal a whole lot about the turbulent times in Palestine of that era. In particular they give us a lot of information about the background of Jesus, his extra-biblical life and his ideological beliefs. He was part of the Essenes, a primitive social, communal group that believed in the collective property, production and decision taking. (By the way, does this remind of Communism/Socialism, that was introduced by
Haim Mardochai Kissel, a son of a Rabbi, widely known as
Karl Marx?) For decades, the Essenes were organising a peaceful revolution (as opposed to the many low-class revolutions of the time, that were violent) against the conservatism and autocracy of the Jewish priests and ruling class, and Jesus was one of their leaders. They were destroyed when the Pharisees paid the Romans to kill and enslave every each one of them.
-George
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