TY - BOOK AU - Daniélou,Jean AU - Daniélou,Jean TI - The Dead Sea scrolls and primitive Christianity AV - BM487 .D25 1958 U1 - 221.4 PY - 1958///] CY - Baltimore PB - Helicon Press KW - Dead Sea scrolls N1 - Translation of Les manuscrits de la mer Morte et les origines du christianisme; Includes bibliography; Contents; I. The religious community of Qumran and the evangelical milieu. John the Baptist and Qumran -- Jesus and the Zadok priests -- Essenian practices in the community of Jerusalem -- II. Christ and the teacher of righteousness. Is the teacher of righteousness a dead and resurrected God? -- The Zadokite use of the Messianic prophecies -- The grandeur and limits of the teacher of righteousness -- III. Early developments of the church and the community of Qumran. Essenes and Hellenists -- Dositheus and the origin of gnosticism -- Traces of Essenian thought in St. Paul -- Saint John and the theology of Qumran -- Is the epistle to the Hebrews addressed to the Essenes? -- The Testaments of the XII patriarchs, the work of a converted Essene -- The Syrian church and the Zadokites -- Ebionism and Essenism -- An Essene converted in Rome ER -