wife, the commonwealth was left in tatters. The peace, unity and prosperity of the chosen tribes, had gone forever. Jesus lived to continue the dream- the removal of the remnants of the tribes from the influence of the new Greek and Roman masters with or without the help of the Judean nation which had failed to find common ground with them. No Jew of any social height would have even contemplated this profane change. Judea would make little or no effort to invite the tribes back, even if they had had the ability or cultural glue to have been able to do it. The Essenes were very definitely against it and held the Judeans responsible for the contamination of the Temple and ritual roles. The Essenes were the backbone of the new Messianic movement of restoration and to them Judea was not part of their claim. To them, the Judean administrators and priesthood had sold themselves to the enemy. Jesus was their Northern Messiah and had been within their monastery walls from an early age, forged to perfection and ready to assume the mantle of leader – but not before he had travelled and joined their many centres and allies throughout the whole of the Middle East and Europe. Whether he was their Teacher of Righteousness is not immediately clear, but it is certainly a very strong possibility and as for the wicked priest, it sounds like Ananias, the intransigent and vociferous fanatic who so desperately wanted Jesus unceremoniously executed. This hidden life of Jesus, can be reconstructed by looking into the crevices of the great amount of so called apocryphal documentation of which the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hamadi cache, form an important part.
A mission from the start
Without looking at Jesus as a first born, son of a