Under constitutional law, 'wickedness" of an allegedly Yehoiarib King-Priest is doubtlessly given by quite other reasons, namely acc to the Davidic orientatated kingship without any priestly authority - a dogmatic pillar of the DSS, if memory serves.
_Dierk
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Goranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: [Megillot] Yannai suffering; ergon nomou
The Qumran "wicked priest"--Yannai--was said to suffer, according to Qumran
mss, from his life of wickedness (cruelty, drunkenness, impurity, robbery...),
and from his countrymen, and from foreigners. No Qumran sentence known to me
explicitly says he was killed by foreigners; nor by his countrymen; nor killed
twice; but suffered variously and died once. Did he suffer from foreigners
(and countrymen)? M. H. Segal, seeing that Yannai was "wicked priest" (JBL
1951), thought so, citing Josephus Antiquities 13.375f:
"Then he engaged in battle with Obedas, the king of the Arabs, and falling
into an ambush in a rough and difficult region, he was pushed by a multitude
of camels into a deep ravine near Garada, a village of Gaulanis, and barely
escaped with his own life, and fleeing from there, came to Jerusalem. But when
the nation attacked him upon his misfortune, he made war on it and within six
years slew no fewer than fifty thousand Jews. And so when he urged them to
make an end of their hostility toward him, they only hated him the more on
account of what had happened. And when he asked what he ought to do and what
they wanted of him, they all cried out, 'to die'; [cf. 4Q448] and they sent to
Demetrius Akairos [cf. 4QpesherNahum], asking him to come to their assistance."
(Josephus also claimed that Alexander Jannaeus told his wife to offer his corpse to the Pharisees. On the relation of this story to 4QpNahum, see VanderKam, High Priests, p. 330f.)
Paul, reportedly a former Pharisee, read Habakkuk differently than the Essene
writer of 1QpesherHabakkuk whose 'osey hatorah had faith in Judah,
the "teacher of righteousness." Sadducees, reportedly accepting neither named
angels nor resurrection, were quite unlikely to become Nazarenes
(later "Christians") nor bring those teachings. Among the very small minority
of Jews who did become "Christians," conversations about observance of torah,
evidently continued, mutatis mutandis, between former Pharisees and former
Essenes.
best, Stephen Goranson
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