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would it be found there with every other book of the modern Old Testament canon,
but the Book of Esther sets forth a new Feast which the community rejected as it is not
found on any of their extensive calendars which were discovered. Their rejection of
the Feast of Purim is also a rejection of the Book of Esther and let us not forget the
New Testament also rejects Purim and never once does Messiah nor any Apostle write
in endorsement of Esther. We could go even deeper into this story but Esther is not
found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and instead these liars have propagandized these two
fragments in fraud. This needs to be addressed and the church should have caught this
and addressed it long ago. However, they give this New Testament era find over to the
Pharisees who defiled the Temple and defile scripture still. As long as the church listens
to them, they will remain in willing ignorance. This is Proto-1st Esdras not Esther.
2nd Esdras In The Dead Sea Scrolls:
The general conclusion of those managing the Qumran narrative who are Pharisees
(modern Rabbis) not Aaronic Levite Priests nor even Hebrews, is that 1st and 2nd Esdras
are not found among the Qumran fragments. We have identified a sort of “Proto-1st
Esdras” and now let us consider 2nd Esdras at least in mindset of the community that
aligns heavily with 2nd Esdras. New information has been brought to light which one
must consider in making at least a connection in thought. Then, we do the research
ourselves and we find two fragments worthy of note.
“4 Ezra is universally acknowledged to be an apocalypse and therefore the literary genre of book
is apocalyptic. However, we are convinced that an apocalypse cannot be reduced to the literary
genre of apocalypse, and therefore we consider 4 Ezra to be one of the witnesses of thought in
the Jewish apocalyptic tradition at the end of the 1st century. We are equally convinced that
the theological ideas of the Qumran Community have their roots in an apocalyptic tradition
that was flourishing in Palestine at the close of the 3rd c. B.C.E.”
– Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 63, 2007. [43-44]
“The second factor which prompted our inquiry was the publication of the first fragments of
a previously unknown Qumran composition: Second Ezekiel. As the editors of the text have
noted, the similarities of this apocalypse with 4 Ezra are surprising, and a recent article has
shown that in fact one of the sentences of The Epistle of Barnabas, usually considered to
have originated in 4 Ezra, comes from the Second Ezekiel recovered from Qumran.”
– Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume: 63, 2007. [43]
If nothing else, this denotes the synergy between the tenor and tone of 2nd Esdras
especially and the Dead Sea Scrolls community in fact, potentially as the origin of
certain texts such as what is labeled as 2 Ezekiel or at least a very similar mindset. We
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