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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Book</strong><br />

Astrology In <strong>The</strong> Dead Sea Scrolls<br />

Jerusalem. It is now believed that Jesus' brother, James the<br />

Righteous, is the same Teacher of Righteousness who plays such a<br />

central role in the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Essenes called themselves the Nozrei ha-Brit, known also as<br />

the Nozrim, Nasoreans, Nazarenes, the Keepers Of <strong>The</strong> Covenant. <strong>The</strong><br />

early Christians called themselves Nazarenes before they were called<br />

Christians in paganized Antioch. By the time that so many Gentiles<br />

were coming in<strong>to</strong> the Nazarene religious community, the Nazarenes<br />

were moving farther and farther away from their Jewish roots. <strong>The</strong><br />

Qumran community's ritual of washing in a ritual bath for the<br />

washing away of sins became the Christian baptism. <strong>The</strong> Essene<br />

common meal of bread and wine became the Christian Mass. <strong>The</strong><br />

observant Jewish rabbi Jesus the Nazarene became the effeminate<br />

Serapis-style Gentile god.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Hebrew scriptures were demoted <strong>to</strong> the Old Testament, as<br />

opposed <strong>to</strong> the Hellenized and paganized New Testament for the<br />

Greek world. <strong>The</strong> separation of Judaism and the new Gentile Christianity<br />

was complete.<br />

<strong>The</strong> literal accuracy of the Bible has had <strong>to</strong> be reconsidered in the<br />

last one hundred years. <strong>The</strong> new sciences of archaeology and literary<br />

criticism have voided many of our presuppositions about the his<strong>to</strong>ricity<br />

of many of the events in Judea at the time of Jesus. Many<br />

modern Biblical archaeologists now believe that the village of<br />

Nazareth did not exist at the time of the birth and early life of Jesus.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is simply no evidence for it. <strong>The</strong>re is a village of Nazareth that<br />

appears on the Roman Judean·maps after the death of Jesus. This<br />

new archaeological discovery would agree with the way that the<br />

Essenes referred <strong>to</strong> themselves in the Dead Sea Scrolls.<br />

As noted above, they called themselves the Keepers of the<br />

Covenant, the Nazarenes ha-Brit (the community of the Nazarenes).<br />

Jesus was referred <strong>to</strong> as Jesus the Nazarene (ha-Brit); in other words,<br />

there are now many reasons <strong>to</strong> believe that Jesus was simply an<br />

observant Essene Jew of his time, not the Greco-Roman god of the<br />

later Roman Empire State <strong>Church</strong> under Emperor Constantine!<br />

It is now speculated that the Hellenic Greek writers of the Greek<br />

New Testament had lost this fine distinction between the late <strong>to</strong>wn<br />

of Nazareth and the meaning of the term Nazarenes. This could<br />

easily have happened after the destruction of the Jewish state in<br />

either 70 A.D. or 135 A.D. Much of the New Testament was written<br />

as late as seventy years after the death of Jesus the Nazarene.<br />

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