James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls II: The

James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls II: The Damascus Code, the Tent of David, the New Covenant, and the Blood of Christ

In this concluding volume of James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls II: The Damascus Code, the Tent of David, the New Covenant, and the Blood of Christ, renowned biblical scholar Robert Eisenman compresses in a more reader-friendly format the results of previous work, creating a more comprehensive picture of Jesusâ€™ brother James as â€œthe pivotal Opposition Leaderâ€ of the time leading up to the War against Rome (66-70 CE).

Is there an interconnecting code between the New Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls? Eisenman â€“ who broke the Scrolls monopoly and was the first to identify the so-called â€œJames Ossuaryâ€ as fraudulent â€“ shows that there is. Moreover, in this newly-revised volume, he â€˜decodesâ€™ many beloved and famous sayings of the Gospels, such as â€œEvery plant which My Heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted,â€ â€œA man shall not be known by what goes into his mouth but by what comes out of it,â€ â€œDo not throw Holy Things to dogsâ€, etc. including chapters like â€œThe Dogs who Licked Poor Lazarusâ€™ Soresâ€ or â€œRabbi Eliezerâ€™s Bad Breath and Lazarusâ€™ Stinking Bodyâ€.

In identifying the Scrolls as the literature of â€œthe Messianic Movement in Palestineâ€; he not only connects â€œJames the Brother of Jesusâ€ to the Leadership of â€˜Early Christianityâ€™ in Palestine, but also to "the Righteous Teacherâ€ in the Scrolls.

Offering a point-by-point analysis of James' relationship to the Habakkuk Commentary, The Damascus Document, The War Scroll, etc., he also illumines the subjects "the Pella Flight and raising the Fallen Tent of Davidâ€, â€œPaul as an Herodian,â€ â€œthe Wilderness Camps,â€ and â€œPeterâ€â€™s role as â€œa prototypical Esseneâ€ but in Acts as a mouthpiece for anti-Semitism. In doing so he, not only clarifies the true history of Palestine in the First Century, but deciphers the way â€˜the pictureâ€™ of â€œJesusâ€ was put together in the Gospels and, as a consequence, what can be known about the real â€œJesusâ€.

He also covers subjects like â€œthe New Covenant in the Land of Damascusâ€ and Paulâ€™s attack on James on the Temple steps, extending it to the competition between Paul and â€œthe Party of Jamesâ€ over â€œCircumcisionâ€ in Antioch and the conversion of Queen Helen Adiabene and her sons in Northern Syria, who led the â€œfamine reliefâ€ effort ascribed to Paul in Acts. Moreover, he will show the figure of James to have been so influential and highly-regarded in the Jerusalem of his day that his death was the capstone event leading up to the Jewish Revolt against Rome.

In making these arguments and exposing actual â€˜overwritesâ€™, a crucial new point that emerges is his identification of the Qumran document called by scholars â€œMMTâ€ as a â€˜Jamesianâ€™ Letter to â€œthe Great King of the Peoples beyond the Euphrates.â€ At the same time, he unravels the real â€œcodeâ€ behind the pivotal New Testament allusion: â€œThis is the Cup of the New Covenant in My Blood,â€ connecting it to â€œthe New Covenant in the Land of Damascusâ€ and â€œgiving the Cup of the Right Hand of the Lord ( "the Cup of Divine Wrathâ€) to drinkâ€ in both the Damascus Document and Habakkuk Pesher in the Scrolls.

Did Paul know the meaning of the famous Damascus Document (discovered in Cairo in the Nineteenth Century) â€œto set the Holy Things up according to their precise specificationsâ€ â€“ or the reverse of it, as Peter is presented as being made to understand by â€œa Voice out of Heavenâ€ and â€œa Tableclothâ€ descending out of it â€“ â€œto make no distinctions between Holy and profaneâ€ â€“ on a rooftop in Gaza?

In this series, Eisenmanâ€™s revelations will extend far beyond these examples. James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, both I and II, will complete the task of rescuing James from the oblivion into which he was cast, either intentionally or via benign neglect. His conclusion will, therefore, definitively bear on the problem of â€œthe Historical Jesusâ€: â€œWho and whatever James was, so was Jesus.â€ Eisenmanâ€™s many readers will not be disappointed.

Country	USA
Author	Robert Eisenman
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781301222704
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Grave Distractions Publications
Manufacturer	Grave Distractions Publications
NumberOfPages	476
PublicationDate	2012-09-04
Publisher	Grave Distractions Publications
ReleaseDate	2012-09-04
Studio	Grave Distractions Publications

James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls II: The Damascus Code, the Tent of David, the New Covenant, and the Blood of Christ

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