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Qumran lies directly within the orbit of Jesus' early activity. His first public appearance occurred in this region. It is a striking fact that the place where Jesus received the ritual baptismal bath in the Jordan at the hands of John, was only 5 km from the monastic settlement of Qumran. There is of course a reason for this. John the Baptist was a schaliach, an apostle of the sect of Qumran…John led a community of Essene moderates. After his baptism one should similarly count Jesus as a member of one of these communities, and refer to him as a Nazarene. This later led to the falsely translated and irrational description of him as 'Jesus of Nazareth', a place which was not even in existence at the time of Jesus. Later a sign was said to have been fixed to the Cross, giving charge against him as membership of this sect: "Jesus, Nazarenus, Rex Iudaeorum—Jesus, Nazarene, King of the Jews.

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« After the sex, the babies | Main | More Friday Cephalopod news »

I knew I forgot something important

Category: Cephalopods
Posted on: January 19, 2007 9:41 AM, by PZ Myers

I forgot to set up a Friday Cephalopod post before I left, and I don't have my scanner with me! Don't panic. Deep breaths. We can cope with this, by being as flexible as a cephalopod.

Here's what I've done. I've reposted an article on Gonatus onyx, which has lovely photos of a squid and its babies. If you saw that beautiful movie of a squid releasing larvae as it was suspended in the deep, you'll recognize it—this is one of those resonantly moving behaviors of certain species of squid: they produced huge numbers of eggs, and then just hover, completely alone and isolated in a deep layer of the ocean, brooding their young.

Also — and this will blow your mind — I will be putting up a MONDAY CEPHALOPOD!!! This is what happens when you think out of the box: you get these earthshaking, radical ideas that might change the whole nature of the blogosphere as we know it. I'm tempted to say there will be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday Cephalopods, but no, I must step back from the abyss, and just take baby steps. One Monday Cephalopod, then we will return to the traditional Fridays, and hope the wobble induced in the Earth's rotation will have stabilized by then.

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Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | January 19, 2007 10:19 AM

Deep breaths PZ, deep breaths.

Posted by: Slippery Pete | January 19, 2007 12:08 PM

This is bullshit, PZ.

Posted by: stogoe | January 19, 2007 1:10 PM

One Monday Cephalopod is enough. If you start a Daily Cephalopod feature, you'll just be assimilating someone else's niche in the blogosphere.

You're already monolithic enough. Let someone else have the Daily Cephalopod spot.

Posted by: Paguroidea | January 19, 2007 8:58 PM

PZ - You more than made up for it with the "After the sex, the babies" and the "Not for claustrophobics" posts. I'm glad I wasn't forced into withdrawal.

I'll be watching on Monday...

Posted by: Monado | January 19, 2007 11:30 PM

I can e-mail you a cephalopod, if you want. How about a little blue embryo, species unknown?