Dead Sea Scrolls Deception : The Explosive Contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and How the Church Conspired to Suppress Them

Name: Dead Sea Scrolls Deception : The Explosive Contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and How the Church Conspired to Suppress Them
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ISBN: 9780224027618

ISBN-10: 0224027611

ISBN-13: 9780224027618

Edition: 1991

Authors: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh

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The oldest Biblical manuscripts in existence, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves near Jerusalem in 1947, only to be kept a tightly held secret for nearly fifty more years, until the Huntington Library unleashed a storm of controversy in 1991 by releasing copies of the Scrolls. In this gripping investigation authors Baigent and Leigh set out to discover how a small coterie of orthodox biblical scholars gained control over the Scrolls, allowing access to no outsiders and issuing a strict "consensus" interpretation. The authors' questions begin in Israel, then lead them to the corridors of the Vatican and into the offices of the Inquisition. With the help of independent scholars,…

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Acknowledgments


Map of Qumran and the Dead Sea


Preface


The Deception


The Discovery of the Scrolls


The International Team


The Scandal of the Scrolls


Opposing the Consensus


Academic Politics and Bureaucratic Inertia


The Vatican's Representatives


The Onslaught of Science


The Inquisition Today


The Dead Sea Scrolls


The Dilemma for Christian Orthodoxy


The Scrolls


Science in the Service of Faith


The Essenes


The Acts of the Apostles


James 'The Righteous'


Zeal for the Law


Zealot Suicide


Paul -- Roman Agent or Informer?


Postscript


Notes and References


Bibliography


Index