dies.” (See also 1 Enoch 97:8–10 and 1 Samuel 25, where the rich fool “Nabal” rejects King David, feasts and drinks like a king, and dies.) 13–15—Jesus is addressed as Teacher and asked to be the “divider” (see the Gospel of Thomas 72) of an estate. This serious business of adjudicating estates has never been easy, as any probate attorney knows. In first-century Palestine, the traditional “laws” which governed such disputes were scriptural, especially Num. 27:8–11 and Deut. 21:16–17. The “teachers of the