Greg,
thx for the informations.
However, 'Doresh ha-Torah' and 'Moreh ha-Tsedeq' are hardly sobriquets but
more likely 'offices' (or parts of a double-office), at least if we assume a
relevant period of time between Josephus' 'Essenes' and the DSS.
"What they most of all honor, after God himself, is the name of their
lawgiver (doresh haTorah), whom if any one blaspheme (sic!) he is punished
capitally" [Bell II, 145b] The passage is somewhat corrupted, for here
neither Moses nor one of the possible Jewish names of the Lawgiver is
meant - the first never was counted among the taboos and the later are to
common to be relevant enough to cause a death penalty - but, so it seems,
the 'Lawgiver in his office', the 'office of the Lawgiver' - the living
authoritative directive of (new) Torah in act of revelation (or God's
prophetic deputy on Earth) - that (/he) is not to be blasphemed without
deadly risk
The interpretation includes the possibility of more than two so-called
ToRs/'prophets like Moses' between 200 BC and 135 CE.
Nevertheless, I wouldn't go so far as to assume direct succession , but -
depending on the need for new Torah (reflecting the political
circumstances) - the rising of such a 'reactive' Moses redivivus, eventually
in a process of election.
Saddukaoi (1st mentioned in Ant XIII, 293f., induced by 288ff.- here
apparently 'Zadokites'; cp mSotah ix.10 etc.), later called Tsadduqim in the
Rabbinic sources seems to be a foreign-designation based upon bne Tsadoq. I
recall Eiseman's attempt to reconstruct a split of the 'Sadducees' in
connection with the inauguration of the first Boethusean HP under Herod - a
split that might have led to 'puristic Sadducees' and 'Boethusean
Sadducees'. But a split is likewise possible already in connection with
events in the prestage of Pompey's siege of Jerusalem. The to be expected
siege hastens the endtime vs the DSS calendar, which would have caused a
harsh discourse among the involved parties and factions concerning a
required military participation.
However, I'll reread the Eisenman trilogy - some time or other.
First I've to check Le Moyne.
Tot ziens,
Dierk
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