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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1958)
DEAD SEA SCROLLS Author says scrolls shed 'new light on Christianity By TOM HENSHAW Associated Press More than a decade has passed .Since a Bedouin shepherd stum bled over the first cave hiding place of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the find of the century in Biblical archaeology. Scholarship and technology have had time to examine many of the 2,000-year-old leather and copper documents and attempt a tentative answer to the absorb ing question: Do the scrolls shed any new light on Christianity? Yes. says Frank Moore Cross Jr., archaeologist and Old Testa- j ment scholar and author of the latest book on the scrolls. "The Ancient Library of Qumran,” pub- ■ lished last week by Doubledav. But* it’s a qualified yes. Cross is the first to admit his book is incomplete. Jews Wrote Scrolls The scrolls, most scholars agree were not the work of early Chris tians but of a Jewish sect called Essenes which inhabited the Qum ran community shortly before and shortly after the birth of Christ. The Essenes were ail apocalyp tic sect-believers in the imminent triumph of righteousness on the ashes of the current evil world— and therein, says Cioss. lies the importance of the scrolls. The primitive Christian church was apocalyptic too. . “We would do well, therefore,” writes Cross, “if we are to under stand the motives in her struc ture and thought, to discover the faith and form of the apocalyptic communities which preceded Christianity.” Scrolls Shed Light As a result of the scrolls, the life and times of a community similar to the early Christian TTTTTSg (A) kafc [wjppmAto 'YYtfrtXMj udnBwj *tk& Ccimifimlc^y -- ^ *K0 RADIO PICTURES PRESENTS [ George pGkSBEL Diana —^ ahd they're tbe best kind ! Adolphe MENJoU All Mine To Give church “can now be investigated seriously for the first time." Cross notes a common theo logical language ami concept of dualism light vs. darkness, truth vs. error running through the scrolls and the New Testament, particularly the Gospel of John. Speculation Noted There has been a good deal of speculation and debate over the forms of government in the early church. Was it by bishop or elders or was it by other means? The Essene community em ployed three—an assembly, a council of 12 and an episcopal overseer. The early Christians, thinks Cross, did likewise. “It would appear.” he says, “that the early church appro printed and modified offices and institutions belong to older upo calyptic communities in develop ing its own organizational struc ture.” Difference Noted The major difference, of course, between the Christians and Es senes was the formers belief in Jesus Christ. The Christians had their Mes I siah: the Essenes were still wait | ing for theirs which may explain | why Christianity survived the i centuries while the Essenes i perished. The Essenes vanished as both a community and a sect during | the Jewish revolt against Home 'about 68 A.D. when Christianity 1 was turning out to the world. Professor to attend M. F. Moss, assistant professor of business administration, will travel to New York City May 31 for a meeting oi the committee on graduate standards of the American Accounting Associa tion of which he is a member. The committee will be con cerned with the proper place for accounting in a doctoral program of business administration. Par ticular attention will be paid to academic standards and the rela KWAX Schedule Wednesday 6:00 Sign on 6:05 News 6:10 Dinner Hour 7:00 Perspectives 7:30 Holland Festival 9:00 Music Misc. 9:15 Let’s Go to Town 9:30 D.J. Jury 10:00 U.N. Report 10:15 Bond & MacNab Report 11:00 Sign off meetings in N.Y.C. tionshlp of accounting to busi ness administration In general. Suggestions bring cash prizes for two Irving Apgar and Mrs. Audrey Streeter, residents of Kugene, were recently awarded $10 apiece for sugewtions thut promote efficiency at the University. 'Hie awards were made by the State of Oregon. Mrs. Streeter, a cook at the University, suggested that u fun nel be used to pour creamed foods into containers distributed to campus dormitories. This will provide quicker food service, and leas food wasted from spillage. Apgar proposed that the air blown into the music room come from an inside rather than out side source and u means of dis tributing the air so that it would tie dust free and room tempera ture, giving added protection to their pipe organ. He Knows Freedom Is Not Free! Do l/ov? Bela Varga knows the price of freedom. He escaped from behind the Iron Curtain . . . leaving his family, his home, his belongings behind him. But 70,000,000 people like Varga still remain behind in the oppressed countries of Eastern Europe. They will drown in the flood of Red lies, restrictions, distor tions unless you help. For, word of freedom can only come to them in one way: from stations like those of Radio Free Europe. 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