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
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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.
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