To Do – Compile the texts highlighted below and read them as the message of Jesus.
From Tabor’s Patreon Zoom Mtg on 12/28/2024 – Abbott about goes all the way back to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Christianity, so-called, and so forth, is do we have emerging in all of these texts two very broad but different streams coming from the John the Baptist Jesus movement? Okay, and you know my answer to that. My answer is yes. Yes, that’s mine, too. They have a different religiosity, a different understanding of the mission. They’re both very apocalyptic, and that could be seen as a real liability, because what they most expected did not come about, unless you categorize it some way. For a fundamentalist or orthodox, that’s not a problem, because no one knows the day or the hour, and therefore you just move it on down to whatever happens. But for historians, there’s this thing called when prophecy fails, and that is when you just absolutely say something, and then it becomes pretty ridiculous after a while, because clearly it’s not coming when you thought it was. But it doesn’t mean that it won’t come, as every apocalyptic movement seems to have some kind of revival.
But that’s my broad interest, and then when I read the Didache, I would cluster right now:
- Hebrew Matthew, the Evan Bohan text of Hebrew Matthew, [see pdf in Scholars/George Howard]
- the book of James,
- expanded Luke Q – [See Scolars/tabor/Q]
- Didache [See paper version of the book]
- some of the community rule,
- 1QS as well, of the two ways and so forth. There are two ways. The spirituality of the community rule. Remember, the teacher hasn’t come yet. The teacher has not come in the community rule.
To Do – Compare the compilation above to the overall message in the Tabor LukeQProject with the yellow highlights; See file 6 Tabor LukeQProject.pdf in Dropbox Tabor/Q.
