The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception - Softcover

Baigent/Leigh

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9780552138789: The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552138789 ISBN 13: 9780552138789

Publisher: Corgi Books, 1992

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Over the last two years a controversy has erupted in the world's press over the Dead Sea Scrolls that were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem between 1947 and 1956. Professor Geza Vermes of Oxford calls it "the academic scandal par excellence of the 20th century", Professor Morton Smith of Columbia University protests that "there is no justification" for the cover-up, and Professor Robert Eisenman of California says, "we're tired of being treated contemptuously". Working with Eisenman - one of the experts in biblical archaeology and scholarship - Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh succeeded in uncovering the story of how and why up to 75 per cent of the 800 ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for some 19 centuries, still remain concealed from the world today. But their book is more than an expose of a struggle between scholars who have begun passing round bootlegged photographs of scrolls yet to be released. Through interviews, historical analysis and a close study of both published and unpublished scroll material, the authors are able to reveal the cause of all the trouble, for these documents disclose a new account of the origins of Christianity and an alternative and significant version of much of the New Testament.

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Review:

"Publishers Weekly" Crystalline, well-documented....Baigent and Leigh advance startling theories that should change the way we view ancient Judaism and nascent Christianity....

"Chicago Tribune"

Not for the theologically faint of heart.

"Newsweek"

A lively tale of one controversial interpretation of the scrolls.

John Leonard

"New York Newsday"

A wonder of savage detail....The reading of the archaeological, historical and analytic-textual evidence is always ingenious.

"Publishers Weekly"

Crystalline, well-documented....Baigent and Leigh advance startling theories that should change the way we view ancient Judaism and nascent Christianity....

"Antiquity" (U.K.)

An engrossing read....A racy tale of archaeological sins, religious bigotry, academic megalomania, misconduct and possible criminality, along with bizarre political intrigue.

"Newsweek" A lively tale of one controversial interpretation of the scrolls.

"Antiquity" (U.K.) An engrossing read....A racy tale of archaeological sins, religious bigotry, academic megalomania, misconduct and possible criminality, along with bizarre political intrigue.

"Chicago Tribune" Not for the theologically faint of heart.

John Leonard "New York Newsday" A wonder of savage detail....The reading of the archaeological, historical and analytic-textual evidence is always ingenious.

From the Publisher:

The explosive contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and how the church consipired to suppress them

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