The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh

By Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh

The oldest Biblical manuscripts in lifestyles, the useless Sea Scrolls have been present in caves close to Jerusalem in 1947, in basic terms to be stored a tightly held mystery for almost fifty extra years, until eventually the Huntington Library unleashed a typhoon of controversy in 1991 through freeing copies of the Scrolls. during this gripping research authors Baigent and Leigh got down to detect how a small coterie of orthodox biblical students won keep an eye on over the Scrolls, permitting entry to no outsiders and issuing a strict "consensus" interpretation. The authors' questions start in Israel, then make them the corridors of the Vatican and into the places of work of the Inquisition. With assistance from self sufficient students, old study, and cautious research of accessible texts, the authors display what was once at stake for those orthodox guardians: The Scrolls current startling insights into early Christianity -- insights that problem the Church's model of the "facts." greater than only a dramatic exposé of the intrigues surrounding those worthy records, The lifeless Sea Scrolls Deception provides not anything lower than a brand new, hugely major standpoint on Christianity.

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There is nothing radically new here. In reality, the most significant texts comprise not the 'biblical' but the 'sectarian' literature. It is these texts rules, biblical commentaries, theological, astrological and messianic treatises that pertain to the 'sect' alleged to have resided at Qumran and to their teachings. To label this material 'sectarian' is effectively and skilfully to defuse interest in it. Thus, it is portrayed as the idiosyncratic doctrine of a fringe and maverick 'cult', a small, highly unrepresentative congregation divorced from, and wholly peripheral to, the supposed mainstream of Judaism and early Christianity, the phenomena to which it is in fact most pertinent.

15 The unopened 'Copper Scroll', found broken into two sections in Cave 3 in 1952. Among the scholars of Father de Vaux's original international team, perhaps the most dynamic, original and audacious was John Marco Allegro. Certainly he was the most spontaneous, the most independent-minded, the most resistant to suppression of material. Born in 1923, he saw service in the Royal Navy during the war and in 1947 - the year the first Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered entered Manchester University as an undergraduate studying Logic, Greek and Hebrew.

When we were in the first stages of collecting the pieces.

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