Word: messiahs
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...what is now Jordan, and that the members of the sect hid the scrolls in caves to safeguard them from advancing Roman legions. But who were these people of the Dead Sea? The question is momentous, because they lived near the place where John the Baptist preached the Messiah's coming, during the time that Jesus taught and the Gospel sources were compiled. And some of their writings seem to show parallels of word and thought with the New Testament itself...
...Testament universe is a snug house with hell in the cellar and heaven upstairs. Angels from above and demons from below are constantly busy on the ground floor, and the end of everything is momentarily expected, with the graves giving up their dead for judgment and the Messiah streaming clouds of glory...
...Powers Lowell House; Lowell Committee; Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; Mgr. the "Messiah...
...Christianity's uniqueness lies, rather in its belief that Jesus was the awaited Messiah; that he was not overcome by death, but continued to be present among his followers in the power of spirit...
...Qumrân community looked for the coming of two Messiahs-their own Teacher and a Messiah from the line of David. "At one time it was all so clear, but now everything seems to be in the melting pot. What is clear is that there was a well-defined Essenic pattern into which Jesus of Nazareth fits. What theologians make of that is really outside my province. I just give my findings...