Why
would we want to read translations and commentary on/as well
the DEAD SEA SCROLLS, themselves, the ancient, religious, spiritual texts
that anti-dated Christ by anywhere from ten years, (Rabbi Hillel,) to a
thousand years? Because these were the books Christ read while he grew
up. How'dja like to be a little like JESUS? Having a great and powerful
spiritual rap!
Well, Jesus didn't sprout from a cloud a full-on metaphysical genius.
The guy read! He talked at the temple with Rabbis who did nothing but read
what was out then. Wealthy people had scrolls in their homes and thru the
TEMPLE, Jesus had access. Same as Will Shakespeare did during the years he tutored the rich families' children, before he went to London.
Then, there was the ESSENE COMMUNITY in the nearby QUMRAM Monastery, (a group
of monks lived there who did nothing but hand calligraph up scrolls they
stuck in high up mountain caves in sealed jars: The Dead Sea scrolls. Their version of 'the cloud.' There
were dozens of CAVES with scrolls left for us today and these texts have
ended up in books, in the post 1950s period. You can google on keywords
and read whole books. Translations by Foakes, Dupont-Sommer. I ran across
a bibliography of all such books by Dr. Charles Francis Potter in his "The
Lost Years of Jesus". Foakes etc are l% of the authors and books on the
subject. Then, as they're all fifty year old books, hit ABEBOOKS .com which
sells them inexpensively.
We know that the old texts were eyebrow raising as the COUNCIL Of NICAEA edited them out of the bible in 325 A.D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
To find your authors/ their titles, GOOGLE "KEYWORDS like ENOCH. (Noah's grandpa, ergo really really old writings which are only included in SOME bibles.) Get ahold of the ENOCH scrolls or the URL BELOW can put them before your eyes in the next half minute!
Google APOCRYPHA, go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch CLICK on each of these headings to read them.
* The Book of the Watchers
* Book of Parables
* The Book of the Heavenly Luminaries
* The Dream Visions
* The Epistle of Enoch
* Names of the Fallen angels
* Ahiah
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HAPPY GOOGLING, oh about-to-be- Saintly wise one. When we take in, we can put out!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha
And Jesus had a lot of GNOSTIC texts available to him
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism
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