Word: testament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...scroll fragments in Jerusalem. Back at Manchester University (where he now occupies a teaching post in comparative Semitic philology), bearded John Allegro turned his reputation for brightness to one for brashness; he drew a public rebuke from his fellow scholars (TIME, April 2) when he suggested that the New Testament's Jesus Christ may have been modeled on the scrolls' "Teacher of Righteousness," who said Allegro on the basis of guess work, was also crucified. Allegro's new book prudently plays down this wild surmise. But together with a vivid account of the discoveries, Allegro gives nonscholarly...
...Allegro suggests, their religion was vastly different from Pauline Christianity, which Allegro seems to consider a Greco-Roman corruption of this early faith-and possibly a corruption of Jesus' own faith. Asks Allegro: "Did Jesus himself go all the way of the New Testament? Did [He] really believe He was God in the flesh?" The Qumran community, writes Allegro, would have abhorred the concept of a God-man (as do the Jews and Moslems today), and they would not have thought of admitting Gentiles to salvation. But the Pauline emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference...
...last analysis," he writes, "the future can never, as in Gnosticism, be conceived in fantastic cosmic terms, despite all the apocalyptic imagery which has found its way into the New Testament. It can only be understood in the light of God's grace as the permanent futurity of God which is always there before man arrives, wherever it be, even in the darkness of death. Paul can certainly speak of a glory which is ready to be revealed for us, of the eternal 'weight of glory' which awaits us. But at the same time he speaks...
...young rector in Oregon was named chairman of the state's Industrial Welfare Commission (1913), helped draft the state's first minimum-wage law, became Bishop of Kansas City in 1939, headed a committee which revised (1941) the Catholic version of the New Testament, was given the personal rank of archbishop in 1954; in Milan, Italy...