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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
AND PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN
ITY,By Jean Danielou, SJ, Heli
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(Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester)
This is a short book divided
into three parts:.
The first section describes the
Qumran community which pro-
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duced and about 70 AD hid the
famous scrolls that did not
come to light again until 1947.
Qumran was a monastery, the
home of an ascetic religious
group called the Essenes. The
appearances of the scrolls creat
ed a scramble in the religious
world the like of which had not
been experienced since Darwin
declared that we and the apes
had the same grandparents. Be
cause the Essenes were a flour
ishing group during the life of
Christ and because their desert
retreat was not too far from
Jerusalem, it was assumed that
ft & ,hing one happened to be
lieve about Christ would surely
be borne out by the scrolls,
whether in favor of the Lord’s
divinity or against it. This has
not proved true for either side.
Father Danielou describes the
life of the Essenes and is of the
opinion they were probably the
educators of John Baptist,
though John was not a member
of the sect.
The second section deals with
the Teacher of Righteousness, a
personality who had emerged as
dominant in the religious prac
tice and belief of the Essenes.
Often associated with Christ
himself by persons wishing to
prove the Christ story a myth,
the fact as interpreted by Fa
ther Danielou is that the Teach
er of Righteousness was an
Essene priest sent into exile by
an evil member of his own con
gregation about forty years be
fore the birth of Christ.
The final section of this book
traces the probable history of
the Essenes following, their dis-
persion from the Qumran mon
astery. Both St. John the Apostle
and St. Paul appear to have
been influenced by Essene con
verts to Christianity, many of
whom are thought to have set
tled in Damascus.
Father Danielou feels that our
new knowledge of the Essenes
supplies answers to many gaps
in the previously known early
hitory of the Church. His book
is an excellent text for all Cath
olics wishing at once to know
(1) what the scrolls are all about
and (2) what position a Catholic
scholar takes regarding them.
As always, Father Danielou’s
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SPEAK, LORD — Book II, a
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(Continued on Page 4)
hard to convince ourselves of it.
We sometimes act more like
deists than the theists we should
be.
Deists (from the Latin word
for God) believe that the Cre
ator made the universe and ev
erything in it. Good. But they
also claim that after God set
the whole thing in motion, He
let it run along by itself. As if
He gave up the whole thing as
a bad bargain and forgot about
it.
Theists (from the Greek, word
of God)—and we’re in this
camp, of course — say that God
not only made the universe, He
also gives it loving care and
guides ail creature to their pro
per end. We call this. Divine
Providence — and we use capi
tals because it’s not some pious
fancy, but a very important doc
trine of our Faith.
In the first place, our Father
in heaven preserves and gov
erns the world. If He took away
His sustaining power for one in
stant, we’d fall back into noth
ingness. But God’s Providence
is more than that. Nothing hap
pens without His will or permis
sion. Christ said this clearly
when He insisted that not even
a sparrow falls to the ground
without His Father’s permission.
God is really a father to us.
He cares about us and helps us
and listens to our prayers.
Remember when St. Peter
(may he forgive us for using
his name so often) saw Christ
walking on the water and want
ed to go to Him? Even though
the Savior commanded the apos
tle to come, Peter sank after he
started because he couldn’t sum
mon enough trust in Christ.
We’re like that too, because we
don’t realize the fundamental
teaching of Divine Providence.
A firm conviction that. God
knows everything, that He can
do everything, and that He loves
us —this is the sure cure for
that most terrible of isms; wor-
rywartism. —R. H. W.
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Question
Box
(Continued on Page 4)
could excuse himself from seri
ous sin if he deliberately ate the
equivalent of a fourth meal, re
gardless of whether the food
was eaten all at once, or at va
rious intervals during the day.
Considering the fact that the
Lenten Fast forbids, under pain
of sin, ail eating between meals,
it would be Pharisaical for one
to try to cut corners in observ
ing the Fast, taking care only
to avoid mortal sin. A Catholic
sincerely interested in his spi
ritual welfare will take the law
of the Church at its face value,
and try to fulfill it as it is. That
law is clear and simple: “Eating
between meals is not permit
ted.”
IF THE Lenten Fast is much
too difficult for an individual to
keep, then he would have rea
son for an excuse or a dispensa
tion. The law itself defines such
difficulty: “When health or abil
ity to work would be seriously
affected, the law does not ob
lige. In doubt concerning fast
and abstinence, a parish priest
should be consulted.”
Q. Where do the ashes blessed
on Ash Wednesday come from?
A. The ashes used on Ash
Wednesday are obtained from
burning the palms blessed the
previous Palm Sunday.
Q. What is scandal? Does
scandal differ from bad ex
ample, or are both one and the
same thing?
A. Scandal can be defined as
an act (or a word) which tends
to tempt or to influence another
to commit sin. The term is ul
timately derived from a Greek
expression meaning a “trap.”
The principal characteristic
of scandal is that it gives an
other an occasion for sin. Tech
nically speaking, scandal clear
ly does not mean conduct that
is merely shocking or surpris
ing, therefore.
Scandal is direct when the
person responsible for it actual
ly intends his action to be the
occasion for another’s sinning ,
(i.e., when one deliberately mis
uses the Holy Name in an effort
to provoke others to sin). Direct
scandal is always wrong.
IN INDIRECT scandal, the
possibility of another’s commit
ting sin as a result of one’s own
action is foreseen, but not di
rectly intended. Such scandal is
wrong, of course, when the
scandalizing act is itself evil;
stealing, for example. Indirect
scandal can be immoral even if
one’s action is indifferent, if un
der the circumstances, a suf
ficient reason for placing that
action is lacking.
BAD EXAMPLE is that type
of scandal which influences an
other to commit the same kind
of sin he sees or hears of. A
Catholic parent who fails to at
tend Sunday Mass is guilty of
bad example as regards the
Sunday observance in respect to
his children, for instance. Like
wise, a Catholic who omits Sun
day Mass to play golf would
show bad example to other
Catholics who might be led to
do the same thing.
Bad example is always scan
dal. But all scandal does not
consist of bad example.
* * *
(The purpose of this column
is to assist the laity to a fuller
understanding of their religion.
It does not seek to promote con
troversy. Questions concerning
personal marriage problems
should be referred to one’s par
ish priest.)
(Continued on Page 4)
what Tyould we have seen? No
body, naturally, was looking. Of
that first instant before which
there was no instant, we can
know only as much as God tells
us. The telling is in the open
ing two chapters of the Bible’s
opening book, Genesis (which
means Beginning). Please read
them carefully: we shall be
much occupied with them for
the next few weeks.
They tell of a creation of the
world in six days; as we read
on in the Old Testament, the
surface meaning seems to be
that it ail happened roughly
four thousand years before the
birth of Christ. Scripture did
not require the surface meaning,
but having no reason to do oth
erwise, men generally did, up to
a century ago, take the four
thousand years for granted.
Modern science — geology es
pecially — provided reason
against believing the four thous
and years and they were drop
ped painlessly. Man is immeas
urably older, and the universe
immeasurably older still.
What of the six days? What
of the order Genesis gives for
the emergence of sun and moon
and the rest? The Fathers and
Doctors of the Church never
thought of Genesis as giving us
a scientific blueprint of crea
tion. Round the end of the
fourth century, over fourteen
hundred years before Darwin,
St. Augustine wrote De Genesi
ad liiieram, establishing that
Genesis was not meant to be
taken literally. His own view
was that in the beginning God
created the “seeds,” the ele
ments which would ultimately
develop, evolve, into our uni
verse. (He has a couple of the
ories about the six days, neither
of them literal.)
The burning question, of
course, was as to the creation
of man. Genesis speaks of two
elements—earth and the breath
of God. “The Lord God formed
man of the slime of the earth”
and “breathed into his face the
breath of life; and the man be
came a living soul.” Did the
word “formed” mean one single,
instantaneous action? Or could
it mean a long process, animal
bodies slowly developing, (un
der God’s guidance) until at last
one was evolved capable of un
ion with a spiritual soul? Ob
viously the word “formed” could
mean either: of itself it does not
tell us.
Nor does the Church. Catho
lics may, if they will, believe in
an immediate creation of the
human body from elements in
the earth; they are allowed to
believe in an evolutional pro
cess by which the first human
body comes from the earth by
way of other animal bodies.
What they must not deny is
the immediate creation, for the
first man and every subsequent
man, of the soul. The soul, being
a spirit, having no parts, cannot
evolve from lower form; it can
exist only if. God creates it.
(Continued on Page 4)
Teach us to care and not to care,
teach us to sit still.
* * *
G. M. Hopkins “God’s Gran
deur”; The would is charged
with the grandeur of God. It
will flame out, like shining
from shock foil; it gathers to a
greatness like the ooze of oil
crushed...
* * *
Cardinal Newman in “Second
Spring”: Ideas come and ideas
go but God abides eternally in
the heart.
* * *
Bede Jarrett’s “No Abiding
City”: We are pilgrims, strang
ers, and this is not an abiding
city. That which appears is but
painted canvas, the kings wear
cardboard crowns. But there is
a reality behind. We must rub
our eyes with the fairy eye-
salve and see the truth. We must
look on that which is eternal,
remind ourselves of it, comfort
ourselves by remembering that
all the rest will pass.
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