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of which the age then ending was Aries. According to Josephus, the phrase "Great Year" was also used to describe the 600-year "Phoenix" cycle,36 which was called by others "Neros." In accordance with the age-old practice of establishing heaven on Earth, i.e., reproducing below what was above, the priestastrologers worldwide were no doubt intent on creating any number of new solar incarnations for the end of both "Great Years," an auspicious and unstable time indeed. The race was on, and whoever arrived first would get the "Phoenix" as well as dominate the Age of Pisces. The "Jews" basically won, but, as the Zadokites said, "And when the present era is completed, there will be no more express affiliation with the house of Judah; every man will `mount guard' for himself."37 Which is to say that there would be no more overt Jews; rather, they would be priests of the "new covenant," or "new testament," as it would later be called.

The Zadokites and Christianity

It is evident that the Zadokites/Sadducees were attempting to produce a "future king of righteousness" to restore to them their traditional priestly role, a new Joshua/Jesus of the type of both the Old Testament and the Maccabean Revolt. Furthermore, the Zadokite Document says, the "scepter of Israel," also the "Prince of the entire Congregation," will destroy the "sons of Seth" (as at Num. 24:17). These "sons of Seth" were evidently the black-robed Pharisees, as mainly luni-stellar cult people, while the whiterobed Sadducees were mainly solar cultists. These priesthoods and factions vying for supremacy thus reflect the same struggle that goes on daily and nightly, as well as annually and precessionally. Thus, the solar cultist Zadokite covenanters called themselves a church and were expecting "Melchizedek redivivus" out of Israel/Samaria/Galilee who would destroy the "wicked priests of Jerusalem." In this way, the new Joshua or Jesus was to overthrow the Pharisees, as was done in the New Testament.

In their writings, the Zadokites are certain of the coming Messianic Age and the advent of a "wondrous child" who would be precocious at the age of two or three and dazzle his elders, the same traditionally said of Jesus. As Gaster says of the treatise he calls "The Wondrous Child":

It is a prediction (one scholar has called it a horoscope) of the birth of a Wondrous Child, characterized as "the chosen of God" and of events which will ensue thereafter. The child will bear (like Krishna and Buddha) special marks on his body, and will be distinguished by precocious wisdom and intelligence. He will be able to prove the secrets of all living creatures, and no schemes against him will succeed.38

Along with these several correspondences between the Zadokites and Christianity are many others. As Golb says, "Scholars of the New Testament have demonstrated abundant parallels between ideas it contains and those found in the scrolls."39

The Christian origins can be seen further in the Zadokite Document: "And God will accept their atonement, and because they took refuge in His holy name they shall indeed see salvation at His hand."400 This very Christian sentence is not an interpolation but reflects one school of thought that shaped Christianity, representing one zealous "Jewish" branch of the ubiquitous pre-Christian salvation cult.

The connection between the Zadokites and Christianity is also evidenced by a variety of concepts and terms, such as the "Holy Spirit," "Salvation," "sons of Light" and "the Elect," a term also used by the Mandaeans/Nazarenes. There is likewise a link between the Mandaeans' Book of John the Baptist and the Genesis Apocryphon found at the Dead Sea.

Furthermore, the author of the Zadokite Manual of Discipline refers to the "deliberative council of the community" in which "there shall be twelve laymen and three priests schooled to perfection in all that has been revealed of the entire Law." Of this council and community, Gaster comments:

No less interesting, and perhaps more exciting, than [the Dead Sea Scrolls'] connection with the Essenes are the