RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dead Sea Scrolls, Baptism Of Jesus, Pharisees

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 210
• Professor: Ian Henderson

Document Summary

Similarity of essenes and sadduccees; similar social class. Key definer of essenes: relation with power (out of power) Similar priestly ideology: governed and controlled by priests out of temple in jerusalem. Disagree about which priests (different relation to power) + josephus trying to rationalize the radicalization, as not a pharisee, but extreme. Pharisees: jewish renewal movement, intensify jewishness by implementing ways of being more jewish for more jews more of the time. How to do so: dining clubs in a jewish fashion. Jesus" pharisee-ism, bring it to your house, inflict it on you. For judas; precludes sovereignty of romans and herod family. Dead sea scroll community; replace high priesthood and even temple destroyed. From the event, make up forecast. (happens a lot in history) Dead sea scrolls + jesus predict destruction of 2nd temple. Motives different: dead sea scrolls; want to build new temple. John the baptist; larger following, baptized jesus (or someone close to him) in.