John the Baptist

Just read this interesting thought about John the Baptist : (Elijah..? Luke 1)

"When we see John appear on the historical scene, allegedly the son of a priest, we find him promoting a means of obtaining forgiveness distinct from the temple’s sacrifices. In other words, he has spearheaded a new religious movement that is seeking to undermine the institution with which his father was associated..

.. Then, however, I noticed a neglected implication of the information in Luke’s Gospel. Luke depicts John as a lifelong Nazirite, like Samuel whose infancy story (1 Samuel 1-2) is echoed both in form and content in the early chapters of Luke. 

Nazirites must keep their hair unkempt (Numbers 6). 

Priests are prohibited from doing so (Lev. 10:6; 21:10; cf. Ezek. 44:20; b. Taanit 17a). 

If John’s mother did what many readers of scripture have done down the ages and connected her own experience with that of the characters in its stories, she might well have prayed for God to do for her what he had done for Hannah, and vowed to dedicate her child as Hannah did. 

This would have placed John in an impossible situation, caught between his mother’s vow dedicating him as a lifelong Nazirite and his father’s ancestral heritage and vocation. 

While infancy narratives are not ideal ground for seeking historical information, I argue that the fact John appeared as a Nazirite and derived from a priestly family would have been visible and well-known, unlike the many unverifiable and often implausible details one encounters in infancy narratives."

https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2024/5/19/publication-preview-two-portraits-of-john-the-baptist


Zechariah, in the Bible, he is the father of John the Baptist, a priest of the sons of Aaron in the Gospel of Luke (1:67–79), and the husband of Elizabeth who is a relative of the Virgin Mary (Luke 1:36). wiki

Elizabeth[a] was the mother of John the Baptist, the wife of Zechariah and a relative of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Luke and in Islamic tradition. She was past normal child-bearing age when she conceived and gave birth to John. According to the Gospel of Luke chapter 1, Elizabeth was "of the daughters of Aaron" wiki

Therefore, Zachariah would frequently pray to God for a son.[10] This was not only out of the desire to have a son but also because he wanted someone to carry on the services of the Temple of prayer and to continue the preaching of the Lord's message to the children of Israel before his death. Wiki Islam

Tbc..

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