The Dead Sea Scrolls and the first Christians
Subtitle: essays and translations
By: Robert Eisenman.
Publisher: Castle Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Edison, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
Subjects: James, -- Brother of the Lord, Saint.; Dead Sea scrolls -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Dead Sea scrolls -- Relation to the New Testament.; Maccabees.; Zadokites.; Christianity -- Origin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: 1. Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran: a new hypothesis of Qumran origins; title: 2. James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher with appendix on: The "three nets of Belial" in the Damascus document, and "Balla"/"Bela" in the temple scroll; title: Part II: The Jerusalem community of James the Just and the community at Qumran; title: 4. Paul as herodian; title: 5. Interpreting Abeit-Galuto in the Habakkuk Pesher: playing on the transmuting terms; title: 6. Eschotological "rain" imagery in the war scroll and the letter of James; title: 7. Interpreting some Esotericisms: the kinds of the peoples, the Princes of Judah and Gehazi in the Damascus document; title: 8. Joining/joiners, 'Arizei-Goim, and the simple of Ephraim relating to a Cadre of gentile God-fearers at Qumran; title: 9. The final proof that James and the righteous teacher are the same; title: Part III: 10. The Damascus document (CD: columns I-VIII of the Cairo Genizah version, including both manuscript A and columns XIX-XX of manuscript B); title: 11. The community rule (1QS: columns I-IX); title: 12. The Habakkuk Pesher (1QpHab).