This lack of evidence has to be emphasized in light of the allegations of Barbara Thiering, an Australian interpreter of the Scrolls, who claims that the Essene mode of interpreting Scripture found in some Scrolls supplies the key to decoding the New Testament itself. According to her, John the Baptist was the community's "Teacher of Righteousness" and Jesus the "Wicked Priest," titles used in sectarian Qumran writings for the leader of the community and the chief of its opponents. . . Thiering goes as far as to maintain that Jesus was born at Qumran, crucified at Qumran, secretly revived at the Dead Sea, and eventually to a woman bishop, from whom he had children and with whom he lived to a ripe old age. All of which is sheer "hokum"--to borrow the word that Time magazine used of her thesis.