Research Catalog

Title

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the first Christians : essays and translations / Robert Eisenman.

Author

Eisenman, Robert H.

Publication

Nashville, Tenn. : Grave Distractions, 2013.

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Description

xxvi, 394 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Professor Eisenman presents a fascinating and compelling picture of a nationalistic, xenophobic, and militant 'Messianic Movement' in Palestine that is very different from the way we currently view Christianity. He also subjects the archeology, paleography, and other external dating tools of Qumran research to rigorous criticism. This book challenges preconceptions and for the first time sets forth the detailed arguments necessary to connect the Righteous Teacher at Qumran to the first Christians, even the family of Jesus itself. It also connects the ideological adversary of the teacher 'the Spouter of Lying' with Paul.

Subject

• Christianity > Origin
• Dead Sea scrolls > Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dead Sea scrolls > Relation to the New Testament
• James, Brother of the Lord, Saint
• Judaism > Christianity
• Maccabees
• Zadokites

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Originally published in 1996.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Hebrew.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran -- James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher The Jerusalem community of James the Just and the community at Qumran -- Paul as Herodian -- Interpreting Abeit-Galuto in the Habakkuk Pehser: playing on the transmuting terms -- Eschatological "rain" imagrey in the war scroll and the Letter of James -- Interpreting some esotericisms: The Kings of the Peoples, the Princes of Judah and Gehazi in the Damascus Document -- Joining/Joiners, 'Arizei-Go'im, and the Simple of Ephraim relating to a cadre of Gentile God-fearers at Qumran -- The final proof that James and the Righteous Teacher are the same -- The Damascus document -- The community rule -- The Habakkuk Pesher -- Glossary of Hebrew terms.

ISBN

• 9780989029360
• 0989029360

OCLC

960815611

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library