First things first.
Add Homonym. What a great challenge as usual. And It forces me to make some changes. None, of course, yet that affects the overall theory though.
And I've learned an extremely important lesson . I need to explain the theory by starting at Corruption 1 and working my way forward, for fear that the big picture will be lost sight of.
Thanks for that. That's why I love this site.
Now to address your points.
"This nicely explains:
(1) why they are not mentioned by name
(2) why carbon dating doesn't support any theories
(3) why there is no historical information that jumps out at you, besides a date which puts it rather early
(4) why it talks about apocalyptic shit that happened after the Teacher's death"
1) They didn't mention names because the threat against the Qumran Community and the Righteous Teacher was a current and ongoing threat. The Agrippa;s and Pharisees still held authority write up to 66AD when The dead sea scrolls were hidden by Rome's attack on Jerusalem. I suspect it was a second level defence against the texts discovery.
2) I didn't see anything relating to carbon dating in the article. Please provide a reference.
3) The dates referred to by quoting the Damascus Document is 207BC plus twenty years (187BC). There is no specific connection to these dates and the Righteous Teacher.
"For when they were unfaithful and forsook him, He hid His face from Israel and His Sanctuary and delivered them up to the sword. But remembering the Covenant of the forefathers, He left a remnant to Israel and did not deliver it up to be destroyed. And in the age of wrath, 390 years after He had given them into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, He is visiting (paqad) them, and He will cause a plant root to spring from Israel and Aaron to inherit His Land and to prosper on the good things of His earth. And they will perceive their iniquity and will recognize that they are guilty men, yet for 20 years they will be like blind men groping for a way. And God will observe their deeds, that they sought Him with a whole heart, and He will raise for them a Teacher of Righteousness to guide them in the way of His heart."
Note: The Author, suggests a future tense, to support his idea of a messianic telling of this tale.
I don't think so, 207BC could be seen as the point in Time that marked the Rise of the Roman Empire (the age of wrath) . At least in terms of its direct threat upon Israel. It was in this year that Rome took over Carthage and was moving eastward. Maybe it took twenty years for the Pharisees to find footing with Rome. In the process they may have created the Qumran Community and given the leaders position that title of the Righteous Teacher or it is a reference to the impact that someone like Jesus had and he was first to earn the title.
Now to the change. I hadn't come across this quote
"This refers to the Wicked Priest who had a reputation for reliability at the beginning of his term of service; but when he became ruler over Israel, he became proud and forsook God and betrayed the commandments for the sake of riches. He amassed by force the riches of the lawless who had rebelled against God, seizing the riches of the peoples, thus adding to the guilt of his crimes, and he committed abhorrent deeds in every defiling impurity."
This made me think that Paul, wasn't the wicked priest at all. It was either Herod Antipas or Herod Agrippa 1 (See my Corruption 3 theory) . I think they held the title of King and Chief Priest. I'll have to check that though.
The liar, then is Paul and that makes sense, when you regard him as never being converted and operating as a Pharisee evangelist trying to lure the lost sheep back to a Jewish Sect. Paul also would have been alive at the time. More reason for not declaring the names.
Thanks again for that, It'll we go in to the book.
4) The author is from the Pharisaic traditions. He talks about apocalyptic stuff because he either believes it or knows it is fundamental to his theology. Me I don't think its real at all. This point is another reason why we should look at Corruption 1 first. My claim is that Cyrus the Great made up the Book of Isaiah and that it related to all things passed by 538BC. He produced to the captive Jewish people and said it was written 140 years before and predicted the dilemmas and hardships that had fallen upon them.
1) Proto- Isaiah. He blamed them for upsetting their God to establish guilt and feigned prophecy.
2) Deutro - Isaiah. He made himself their Gods best friend. Just like he did with Marduk and the Babylonians in 540BC. The birth of messiah complex
3) Tritro - Isaiah. He laid out some new rules.
"Call me a pedant, but if it was about Christianity, it would sort of be jumping out at you. It is therefore more likely that this is a document about total crap, oblivious of Jesus, rather than something that was written to foil modern Christians. If it was written to foil modern Christians, then some facts would stand out."
It wasn't thought as Christianity back then. Just another Jewish Faction. Let's call them Essenes. Emperor Nerva and Agrippa's Pharisee alliance (Essenes) were the ones who started foiling the "Christians".
If I was going to build a knock-down interpretation of what Christianity really was, then I'd like something that appeared to be a fact on my side.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Priest
Again, lets start with Cyrus the Great and work forward.
Pesher Habakkuk, Col. 8:8–13