Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greenhouses, Inc., had a Manhattan rendezvous with Evangelist Billy Graham. Preacher Graham, though deploring the publicity about their meeting, acknowledged that he had first gone to work on Mickey in 1949, now has high hopes that Cohen will repent in earnest. Said Cohen: "I am very high on the Christian way of life. Billy came up, and before we had food he said-What do you call it. that thing they say before food? Grace? Yeah, grace. Then we talked a lot about Christianity and stuff...
Only lately have scholars accumulated enough facts to be able to settle down to a sober appraisal of the scrolls' significance. The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations of Christianity, but they greatly contribute to the understanding of those foundations. As U.S. Old Testament Scholar Frank Cross of McCormick Theological Seminary puts it: the writers of the scrolls and of the New Testament "draw on common resources of language, theological themes, and concepts . . . The strange world of the New Testament becomes less baffling, less exotic." Says Hebrew Scholar Theodor Caster of Dropsie College: "They recover...
...Matrix. The scroll community called itself the people of the New Covenant or New Testament, and some of them may have become Christians after the Romans scattered them from their center on the Dead Sea. But the scholars on the ground agree that they were in no sense Christian or proto-Christian. The Essenes would probably have been the first to cry heresy at the Christian welding of all three messiahs - prophet, priest and king - to have been shocked at Jesus' attitude toward the Law, to have not understood his atoning death...
Black Market in Scrolls? The study of the fragments has had a stunning impact upon both Jewish and Christian Biblical scholarship. Not only do they provide a wealth of script samples from different eras to advance the science of paleography by a giant step; they provide a far earlier authority for the text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint...
...with such labels as Gold Star and Friends, are not the only puzzle pieces that need gathering and fitting together. There are also human and historical fragments from which scholars are trying to reconstruct the story of the Qumran sect itself-one of the great dramas of the Judeo-Christian tradition...