By Robert Eisenman
This is often Eisenman's unique, ground-breaking paintings within which he criticizes the archaeology and paleography of Qumran because it have been constructed via 'the experts' as much as that point and particularly deals his personal hypothesis-starting with the truth that it used to be most unlikely to think about that the Maccabees have been the so-called "Wicked monks" at Qumran, basically simply because every little thing recognized approximately them has the same opinion, for the main half, with the doctrines and positions emanating from the records identified at the moment to emanate from the realm referred to as "Qumran" alongside the Northwestern a part of the useless Sea and which, consequently, we name "The lifeless Sea Scrolls".
In addition, he exhibits really that the institution opposed to whom the Qumran Scrolls have been in a nearly homogeneous demeanour directed was once really that of the Herodians and the monks that owed either their appointment and authority to them and the Roman Governors that during due path both changed or governed both via or at the side of them. He additionally begins during this paintings to construct his case for the truth that the person got here to be understood in Early Christian heritage as "James the Righteous" and referred to as via everybody "James the Just"-that comparable person identified by way of every body as as "James the Brother of Jesus"-had a great deal in universal with "the Righteous instructor" defined and alluded to in lots of useless Sea Scrolls records. this is why this ebook, initially released within the early Nineteen Eighties, used to be subtitled "A New speculation of Qumran Origins".
It was once essential to topic either the archaeology and paleography of Qumran-upon which the so-called "Establishment" or "Consensus of Qumran students' had all established either their theories and chronology to thoroughgoing feedback. This he has performed, as in simple terms a person who initially studied math and physics, may do, in a meticulously masterful model. not anyone has 'laid a glove' on his research considering that. even as and in parallel style, he begins to signify that the 'opponent' of this person in Early Christian historical past, Paul, had concerning the related volume of features with the person those comparable Qumran records are continually bearing on as "The Spouter of Lying", "the Liar" or "Man of Lying", or "the Scoffer" or Jester" (not anyone to be taken seriously)-but, in fact, this isn't an identical person as "the depraved Priest" whom prestigious Qumran 'scholars' at the maximum point insist upon saddling him with simply because they observed "the depraved Priest" and "the mendacity Spouter" defined in Qumran records because the similar individual.
Eisenman lays out the following in very transparent phrases that the 2 members denoted as "the depraved Priest" and "the mendacity Spouter" have been targeted and totally separate persons-this back, regardless of what a few 'scholars' try and foist on him so that it will attempt to make him glance ridiculous . No, to the contrary, in doing so, they just make themselves glance ridiculous. Eisenman is particularly cautious the following - "the Spouter of mendacity" is an inner opponent of "the Righteous instructor" at Qumran. "He denied the legislations in the course of the total Congregation"! "The depraved Priest - definitely no 'Maccabean'/'Hasmonean' - was once relatively an institution and doubtless Herodian excessive Priest, that means, appointed by way of the "Herodians" and their Roman Overlords.
It used to be this person who used to be liable both for the destruction or the dying of "the Righteous Teacher"-a state of affairs greatly paralleling a few such comparable events defined, albeit particularly tendentiously, within the New testomony and, in fact, by means of Josephus. someone who choices up this brief publication with its copious footnotes (much of the argument being carried out there, so his gainsayers may, in fact, needed to have first had a glance at those ahead of criticizing him-which frequently they've got now not) are not dissatisfied. it really is and used to be his first salvo within the ongoing and operating conflict he has been engaging in with "Consensus" and "Establishment students" ever because and - to his credits - without little effect."
Review
Another of his books in an extended sequence of designated rationalization of the true tale of the start of Christianity. I gobbled "James, the Brother of Jesus", and hugely suggest learn similar. all of the remainder of his "works" move from that record. Prof. Eisenman sheds new mild on an previous topic and leads the way in which of truth.
The fantastic thing about this e-book is that it really is either brief and entire -- a a bit startling eye-opener to me and, i believe, to somebody else steeped within the fabrications of Sunday-school dogma. each web page illuminates what has been loosely termed "the Qumran records" and the way they relate to the relations of Jesus and the formation of early Christianity. Who else yet a superb historian may provide such a unprecedented paradigm by which the remainder of us can view historical manuscripts as a way to see extra sincerely what truly occurred, instead of ghostly apparitions perceived "through a tumbler darkly."
Dr. Eisenman merits our gratitude. He not just tells it love it used to be, however the tale is definitely well worth the price!
About the Author
Robert Eisenman is the writer of the hot testomony Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006), James the Brother of Jesus: the major to Unlocking the secrets and techniques of Early Christianity and the useless Sea Scrolls (1998), The useless Sea Scrolls and the 1st Christians (1996), Islamic legislations in Palestine and Israel: A background of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari’ah (1978), and co-editor of The Facsimile version of the useless Sea Scrolls (1989), The useless Sea Scrolls exposed (1992), and James the Brother of Jesus and the useless Sea Scrolls Volumes I and II (2012). Robert is an Emeritus Professor of heart East Religions and Archaeology and the previous Director of the Institute for the examine of Judeo-Christian Origins at California country college lengthy seashore and traveling Senior Member of Linacre university, 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 experiences (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 learn in Jerusalem, the place the useless Sea Scrolls have been first tested. In 1991-92, he was once the advisor to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California on its selection to open its information and make allowance loose entry for all students to the formerly unpublished Scrolls. In 2002, he was once the 1st to publicly announce that the so-called ‘James Ossuary’, which so without notice and ‘miraculously’ seemed, was once fraudulent; and he did this at the exact same day it used to be made public at the foundation of the particular inscription itself and what it acknowledged with none ‘scientific’ or ‘pseudoscientific’ aids.
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Go H ere, of course, is the archetypical episode for the fou n d i ng of a com m u n ity such as Q u m ra n , but so thick i s the obscu rity s u rroun d i n g M accabean claims i n Q u m ran research, it i s never rem arke d . J udas is a Zaddik i n the sense that N oah the Righteous was consid ered a Zaddik (so surnamed i n various Second Tem ple books) . I n some sense the conti nued existence of mankind is pred icated on h i s righteous beh av ior, Gl a n d h i s " N azi rite" (Or " Rechabite") style vegetarianism is tied to this.
1 24 "Th e l 1 68 De Vaux claims that m i nting - m ust h ave begu n i n the spring of the year 68, which wou ld have left enough time for this s u bstanti al n u m ber of co i n s to get to Q u m ran before its fa l l , which he pl aces i n J u ne.