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
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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‚¬Å“the pivotal Opposition Leaderâ‚¬Â 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‚¬â€œ who broke the Scrolls monopoly and was the first to identify the so-called â‚¬Å“James Ossuaryâ‚¬Â as fraudulent â‚¬â€œ shows that there is. Moreover, in this newly-revised volume, he â‚¬Ëœdecodesâ‚¬ many beloved and famous sayings of the Gospels, such as â‚¬Å“Every plant which My Heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted,â‚¬Â â‚¬Å“A man shall not be known by what goes into his mouth but by what comes out of it,â‚¬Â â‚¬Å“Do not throw Holy Things to dogsâ‚¬Â, etc. including chapters like â‚¬Å“The Dogs who Licked Poor Lazarusâ‚¬ Soresâ‚¬Â or â‚¬Å“Rabbi Eliezerâ‚¬s Bad Breath and Lazarusâ‚¬ Stinking Bodyâ‚¬Â. In identifying the Scrolls as the literature of â‚¬Å“the Messianic Movement in Palestineâ‚¬Â; he not only connects â‚¬Å“James the Brother of Jesusâ‚¬Â to the Leadership of â‚¬ËœEarly Christianityâ‚¬ in Palestine, but also to "the Righteous Teacherâ‚¬Â 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, â‚¬Å“Paul as an Herodian,â‚¬Â â‚¬Å“the Wilderness Camps,â‚¬Â and â‚¬Å“Peterâ‚¬Ââ‚¬s role as â‚¬Å“a prototypical Esseneâ‚¬Â 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‚¬Ëœthe pictureâ‚¬ of â‚¬Å“Jesusâ‚¬Â was put together in the Gospels and, as a consequence, what can be known about the real â‚¬Å“Jesusâ‚¬Â. He also covers subjects like â‚¬Å“the New Covenant in the Land of Damascusâ‚¬Â and Paulâ‚¬s attack on James on the Temple steps, extending it to the competition between Paul and â‚¬Å“the Party of Jamesâ‚¬Â over â‚¬Å“Circumcisionâ‚¬Â in Antioch and the conversion of Queen Helen Adiabene and her sons in Northern Syria, who led the â‚¬Å“famine reliefâ‚¬Â 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‚¬Ëœoverwritesâ‚¬, a crucial new point that emerges is his identification of the Qumran document called by scholars â‚¬Å“MMTâ‚¬Â as a â‚¬ËœJamesianâ‚¬ Letter to â‚¬Å“the Great King of the Peoples beyond the Euphrates.â‚¬Â At the same time, he unravels the real â‚¬Å“codeâ‚¬Â behind the pivotal New Testament allusion: â‚¬Å“This is the Cup of the New Covenant in My Blood,â‚¬Â connecting it to â‚¬Å“the New Covenant in the Land of Damascusâ‚¬Â and â‚¬Å“giving the Cup of the Right Hand of the Lord ( "the Cup of Divine Wrathâ‚¬Â) to drinkâ‚¬Â 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‚¬Å“to set the Holy Things up according to their precise specificationsâ‚¬Â â‚¬â€œ or the reverse of it, as Peter is presented as being made to understand by â‚¬Å“a Voice out of Heavenâ‚¬Â and â‚¬Å“a Tableclothâ‚¬Â descending out of it â‚¬â€œ â‚¬Å“to make no distinctions between Holy and profaneâ‚¬Â â‚¬â€œ 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‚¬Å“the Historical Jesusâ‚¬Â: â‚¬Å“Who and whatever James was, so was Jesus.â‚¬Â Eisenmanâ‚¬s many readers will not be disappointed.

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Brand	Brand: Grave Distractions Publications
Manufacturer	Grave Distractions Publications
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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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