Jonathan James Dsouza: Happy about it
India on May 26, 2022
Benjamin Mylliem: This book opens up new areas which I have never learn before. It's a must read for everyone.
India on Sep 20, 2021
Chris Albert Wells: The considerable amount of parallels between the lexicology of the DSS and the Gospels is not a scoop, but the author presents the case in a clear way for new readers interested in the topic without departing from the basics of Christian faith.
Most people have heard about the DSS but have only a very vague, if any idea about their contents. The frequent affirmation that they are mainly significant for Old Testament studies has to be revised. Bergsma is proof to that.
I bought this book on the claim of continuity between DSS and Gospels. This is unusual among scholars who usually argue for just a few borrowings and conversions from Essenes to the new faith in the early thirties. Bergsma’s book shows that there is obviously much more in the DSS that enlighten earliest Christianity than commonly accepted. Not only the vocabulary but also the priestly organization and rituals have a lot in common.
The parallels between an Essene benediction and Christ’s Last Supper are neatly addressed. We find a thanksgiving ritual in the Community Rules where the blessings are under the authority of the founder of the DSS community and also in the later Messianic Rules where the...
United States on Oct 31, 2019
Jeri: Bergsma digs into the what scholars have learned from the Scrolls since they were found, and detects echoes of the Qumran community in early Christianity, so many echoes that it brings up the possibility of actual ties, perhaps between John the Baptist and Qumran.
It seems incredible now, but some fifty-100 years ago scholars argued the Infancy Narratives were fictional. Then the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. "It is now clear that Luke was using Jewish sources...terms used in the Magnificat and Benedictus only make sense in Hebrew" .
The Gospel most impacted by the information contained in the Scrolls has been John, "Bultmann regarded all the Gospels as fictional—'mythology' was his favorite term—and especially the Gospel of John." Once the Scrolls were found, it was clear that the dualism expressed in John had clear echoes in the Scrolls, as did much of the language and religious concepts. "Outside of the Scrolls, the term “Spirit of Truth” occurs only in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs".
Also, the Scrolls appeared to expect not one, but "two Messiahs, a priestly one from the line of Aaron and a royal one from the line of David, ...a...
United States on Sep 16, 2019
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Australia on Jun 11, 2022