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Dead Sea Scrolls Not Written by Essenes?

By David Larsen | Published: March 17, 2009
Hebrew University scholar Rachel Elior (author of The Three Temples), has recently made news for declaring that the Dead Sea Scrolls were not written by Essenes. In fact, according to Elior, there never were any Essenes at all. Josephus (and a number of ancient writers) made them up in order to create a mystique of [...]
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SANE Conference 2008–My Presentation on Two High Priesthoods

By David Larsen | Published: November 12, 2008
This is a video of my presentation at the SANE Conference. The title of my paper was: “Two High Priesthoods? Evidence for Changes in the Priesthood from First to Second Temple Judaism.” This was originally a paper that I wrote for an Old Testament class at Marquette University.  I had to actually cut out a [...]
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Apocalyptic Literature: Creation, Adam, and the Fall

By David Larsen | Published: August 31, 2008
This post is a continuation of the last one, where I covered what I learned this week in my Age of the Fathers course. Before moving on to Dr. Andrei Orlov’s class on Apocalyptic Literature, I want to share with you some of the recommended reading titles that Dr. Barnes gave us which refer to early Christianity, [...]
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