Was Moses Wiccan?, page 3

Originally posted by adjensen

Originally posted by windword
The Dead Sea Scrolls are collection of biblical manuscripts from what we now call the Hebrew Bible. The texts were found in 1947 in a cave in an area called Qumran, in the west bank of Palestine.

I meant to point this out to you in our previous conversation, but I recently read a theory that the Dead Sea Scrolls weren't necessarily Essene documents (since some of the stuff in there clearly reflects a different philosophy,) but rather was the doing of some unknown person from Jerusalem who grabbed what they could out of a religious library there as the city was being destroyed by the Romans in 70AD and buried them in the cave to be retrieved once the coast was clear.

I have had the same thoughts myself, about the desperation that must have occurred as the people of the time perceived the approaching horror, doom and gloom of the Jewish wars. What a dreadful day for humanity.

A few years ago, I had the privilege of attending a presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls at one of the Museums at Balboa Park, San Diego. They showed us a film re-enactment of the scribes housing, and how they taught the initiates by having them copy scriptures, tediously. They did assert that all of the Dead Sea documents came out of the Qumran community. But I don't have a problem in believing that documents from elsewhere were brought there, for safe keeping, and then stashed along with the others, in a desperate attempt of preservation..

That being said, the document does echo the content of the the Book of Enoch. I think it is a beautiful and moving text, insinuating how life and worship might have been different, and reconciles some of my doubt that looms around the God that handed us the 10 Commandments.

The text states that these commandments were hidden away in the heart of Moses, and were never to be written in language, so we have to assume then that the text is only a whisper of the true commandments the author was hinting at. But I am convinced that God originally wished us to worship him though joy and celebration

As to the thread question, as Wicca is a recent invention, no, Moses was not a Wiccan, unless he had access to Abraham's... well, you know what I'm going to say

No time machine necessary, my friend. Wicca is simply a repackaging of a very old tradition. I'm not Wiccan, and really pretty ignorant as to their rituals, but I'm pretty sure that most Wiccans would not be offended by the prospect of a morning and evening ritual of communing with the angels of earth and of heaven.