By Robert Eisenman
This is often the follow-up paintings to Prof. Eisenman's Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians, and Qumran: a brand new speculation of Qumran Origins, within which he makes an attempt to turn out in a case-by-case demeanour a number of the hypotheses he instructed in that unique ground-breaking paintings.
Both works develop into, unusually adequate, near to the exact same variety of pages and what Prof. Eisenman does during this brief quantity is to head via what's recognized by means of students as "The Habakkuk Pesher" and laymen, "The Habakkuk statement" – "Pesher" in Hebrew having an identical feel as "Commentary" in English – in a line-by-line, passage-by-passage type; and meticulously set forth simply how they could relate to recognized occasions, rules, and happenstances recognized from and linked to the lifetime of James or as all Early Christian bills might have it: "James the simply" (the cognomen, “the only one” after all, being continuously all-important) or “James the Zaddik.”.
As we all know, he has increased this in one thousand+ web page books considering that: James the Brother of Jesus: the most important to Unlocking the secrets and techniques of Early Christianity and the lifeless Sea Scrolls (1997-98) and the recent testomony Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006) and shorter ones: James the Brother of Jesus and the useless Sea Scrolls I and II (2012 and 2013); yet those preliminary volumes symbolize his first forays into this territory. once more, regardless of the impact by means of a number of critics, who test make mild of or marginalize his theories or scholarship (as in the event that they may produce something better); as in MZCQ, he completely distinguishes among "the Spouter of Lies” or “Lying” (the so-called “Liar” or “Scoffer” – for Eisenman, a extra exact translation of this final being “the Jester”) and "the depraved Priest"; and this dichotomy has withstood the try of time and initiated a number of imitators.
Not simply does he make it transparent – regardless of a few simplistic “Consensus” theorizing – that those are completely assorted; yet, in doing so, he totally confirms via inner research a primary Century CE date for relevant Qumran unique records (called by means of so-called ‘consensus scholars’, “Sectarian”), a place he already essentially set forth in MZCQ. the 1st, in fact, is an inner ideological Adversary of the hero of the Scrolls, "the Righteous instructor" – “the Liar” who "denied the legislation in the middle of their complete Congregation" – the second one, the current institution excessive Priest and this, definitively now not a “Maccabean” however the reigning “Herodian” one.
It is he who's chargeable for the loss of life or destruction of "the Righteous instructor" and a few of these with him – known as revealingly “the terrible" – “the Ebionim" within the Hebrew of the Scrolls and intensely most likely akin to "the Ebionites" of Early Church heritage approximately whom Eusebius within the 4th Century is so contemptuous and scathing of. those and lots of different issues are meticulously delineated during this, Eisenman's first foray right into a line-by-line decipherment of the Habakkuk Pesher – having already dealt definitively and intimately with the dual problems with Archaeology and Paleography in MZCQ previous it. either one of those very-hard-to-acquire books won't, it's was hoping, disappoint, Prof. Eisenman's many admirers.
Review
I'm at the moment examining Neil Asher Silberman's ebook at the Scrolls background, "The Hidden Scrolls", during which he exhibits Eisenman on one facet, the consensus students at the different. How lengthy will or not it's ahead of they back down and permit the one that is aware what he's speaking approximately inform the tale? there's a lot left to do in dismantling 20 centuries of Christian and Rabbinic Jewish overlaying up. James is the one that had preeminence within the first century. that's now confirmed. Eisenman in basic terms stops brief while he concludes, "Who and no matter what James used to be, so was once Jesus". James used to be the grasp and that's transparent, not just as he acknowledged, in Acts 1 the place fictional 'Judas' covers him (and additionally as fictional "Joseph Barsabbas JUSTus"), yet within the BETRAYAL, TOO. It used to be in basic terms simply because Eisenman is not conversant in the dwelling Masters culture (Sant Mat, now the Radha Soami Satsang, Beas > [...] that he did not expand his research to the overwriting of James as 'Judas' in "the Betrayal" coverup of his install as successor grasp. here's that ultimate bankruptcy: The Bible says Saviors testomony i attempted telling him in individual, when you consider that he's the one that came across James somewhere else within the gospels and Acts, yet he wasn't receptive. the area of Western faith isn't back to be an identical. there isn't any going again from what we now find out about the Masters of Palestine, John the Baptist, James the simply, Simeon Cleophas, and Judas Thomas. all of them taught what's at the present time known as 'Surat Shabd Yoga' ('Listening to the Sound Union') of John 3:8 and lots of different passages.
About the Author
Robert Eisenman is the writer of the recent testomony Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006), James the Brother of Jesus: the most important to Unlocking the secrets and techniques of Early Christianity and the lifeless Sea Scrolls (1998), The useless Sea Scrolls and the 1st Christians (1996), Islamic legislation in Palestine and Israel: A heritage of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari’ah (1978), and co-editor of The Facsimile version of the useless Sea Scrolls (1989), The lifeless Sea Scrolls exposed (1992), and James the Brother of Jesus and the lifeless Sea Scrolls Volumes I and II (2012). Robert is an Emeritus Professor of center East Religions and Archaeology and the previous Director of the Institute for the learn of Judeo-Christian Origins at California nation college lengthy seashore and vacationing Senior Member of Linacre collage, Oxford. He holds a B.A. from Cornell college in Philosophy and Engineering Physics (1958), an M.A. from big apple college in close to jap reports (1966), and a Ph.D from Columbia college in heart East Languages and Cultures and Islamic legislation (1971). He used to be a Senior Fellow on the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew stories and an American Endowment for the arts Fellow-in-Residence on the Albright Institute of Archaeological examine in Jerusalem, the place the useless Sea Scrolls have been first tested. In 1991-92, he used to be the advisor to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California on its choice to open its documents and make allowance unfastened entry for all students to the formerly unpublished Scrolls. In 2002, he used to be the 1st to publicly announce that the so-called ‘James Ossuary’, which so abruptly and ‘miraculously’ seemed, was once fraudulent; and he did this at the exact same day it was once made public at the foundation of the particular inscription itself and what it acknowledged with none ‘scientific’ or ‘pseudoscientific’ aids.
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The " d o i ng" o r " Doers of t h e Torah" tied to it a re t h e a n a l og u e of s u c h i m po rta nt expres s i o n s e l se where in the Q u m ra n corp u s l i ke Shom rei ha-Britj" Keepers of the Cove n a nt" o r Nozrei- Britoj" Kee p e rs of h i s Cove n a nt". The d efi n i tion of "the sons of Zad o k", t h e i r m ost pe rfect em bodi m e nt, t u r n s in the Zadok ite Docu m e n t on a n a l l u s i o n to " d o i n g" j"wo rks " (both based o n the H eb rew root c - 5-H) , in particu l a r, " d o i n g the p reci se s e n s e of the Law", and the i d e ntity of t h e H a b a kk u k Pesher's " Law- D o e rs " a n d t h e Zadokite Docu m ent's "sons of Zadok" i s , t h e refore, i nt r i n s i c .
To "th e ru l e rs of the Kittim i n confe rence in thei r g u i lt- r i d d e n house re p l aci n g their r u l e rs o n e after the oth e r a n d each co m i n g in tu rn to destroy the eart h " refers to 'the yea r of the t h ree E m pe r o rs', as it i s s o m eti mes taken as d o i n g, t h e n o n e h a s a solid textual mea s u re fo r d ati n g the co m m e ntary. Aga i n , h oweve r, this passage need not re fe r to a given yea r s u c h as 68 C E , but to Ro m a n e m perors fro m Ca l i gu l a to Ves pas i a n .
Th i s " P riest" i s a l s o de scri bed as " re be l l i n g a ga i n st a n d breaking the Laws of G od " (vi i i . ) . e. , " b re a k i n g" i n the sense of Ez 447's " Cove n a nt-b rea ki n g", ties t h e a l l u s i o n fi rmly i nto t h e context of t h e Zado kite State m e nt's pro h i b i t i o n aga i n st a d m i tti n g a l i e n s " u n ci rc u m cised in either h e a rt o r body" i nto t h e Te m p l e a n d t h e previou s a l l u s i o n to t h e CArizim 1 Bogdim , e t a l .