Offering an eyewitness account of the final burial place of John the Baptist, Feather makes the case that Christianity grew out of a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. Includes physical and photographic evidence never before published.
Offering an eyewitness account of the final burial place of John the Baptist, Feather makes the case that Christianity grew out of a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten. Includes physical and photographic evidence never before published.
Robert Feather is a metallurgist, engineer, journalist, and scholar of world religions. He is the founding editor of The Metallurgist, editor of Weighing and Measuring, and the author of The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran. He lives in London.
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Acknowledgments Foreword Preface 1 Conversations with Monsieur Jozef Milik 2 A Historical Canter through the Intertestamental Years (320 B.C.E. to 132 C.E.) 3 Scribblers, Squabblers, and Scholars 4 Perceived Dangers for the Church 5 Was Jesus a Real Person? The Literary and Other Sources 6 The Archaeological Evidence for Jesus’s Life 7 The Qumran Community’s Innermost Beliefs: Messianic Soldiers of Light 8 Messiahs of Qumran 9 The Teacher of Righteousness and Expectations of the End Days 10 Ethereal Melchizedek--and Kabbalah 11 Apocalypse Soon 12 A Community of Essenes--or Something Else? 13 Manuscripts of Contention 14 Gnosticism at Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls 15 Quotations from the Christian Scriptures Derived from the Dead Sea Scrolls 16 Messianic Apocalypse, Son of God, and Pierced Messiah 17 Paul’s Smoking Gun 18 Beyond Paul 19 The Missing Years 20 Jesus, the Essenes, and the Gospels of the Christian Scriptures 21 John the Baptist Strides into View 22 Was John the Baptist a Member of the Qumran Community? 23 John’s Trademark: Ritual Immersion 24 John’s Ministry 25 Geographical Juxtapositions of Christian and Essene Settlements 26 Trial and Crucifixion 27 A Return Visit to Paris 28 The Search Begins 29 Fields of Death and Silence 30 The Excavations at Qumran 31 Years of Silence 32 Missing Bones 33 The Bones of John the Baptist 34 The Stone of Thorns 35 Facial Likenesses 36 Alternative Burial Sites for Jesus 37 Closing the Circle 38 The Holy Family in Egypt 39 The Qumran Essenes’ Presence at Amarna 40 Conclusions and Significance of the Discoveries Appendix 1 1956 Letter from the Jerusalem Team and Allegro’s Response Appendix 2 1956 Letter from John Allegro to Frank Moore Cross Appendix 3 Yolanta Zaluska Milik’s Commentary Notes Scroll and Texts Glossary General Glossary Index
Acknowledgments Foreword Preface 1 Conversations with Monsieur Jozef Milik 2 A Historical Canter through the Intertestamental Years (320 B.C.E. to 132 C.E.) 3 Scribblers, Squabblers, and Scholars 4 Perceived Dangers for the Church 5 Was Jesus a Real Person? The Literary and Other Sources 6 The Archaeological Evidence for Jesus’s Life 7 The Qumran Community’s Innermost Beliefs: Messianic Soldiers of Light 8 Messiahs of Qumran 9 The Teacher of Righteousness and Expectations of the End Days 10 Ethereal Melchizedek--and Kabbalah 11 Apocalypse Soon 12 A Community of Essenes--or Something Else? 13 Manuscripts of Contention 14 Gnosticism at Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls 15 Quotations from the Christian Scriptures Derived from the Dead Sea Scrolls 16 Messianic Apocalypse, Son of God, and Pierced Messiah 17 Paul’s Smoking Gun 18 Beyond Paul 19 The Missing Years 20 Jesus, the Essenes, and the Gospels of the Christian Scriptures 21 John the Baptist Strides into View 22 Was John the Baptist a Member of the Qumran Community? 23 John’s Trademark: Ritual Immersion 24 John’s Ministry 25 Geographical Juxtapositions of Christian and Essene Settlements 26 Trial and Crucifixion 27 A Return Visit to Paris 28 The Search Begins 29 Fields of Death and Silence 30 The Excavations at Qumran 31 Years of Silence 32 Missing Bones 33 The Bones of John the Baptist 34 The Stone of Thorns 35 Facial Likenesses 36 Alternative Burial Sites for Jesus 37 Closing the Circle 38 The Holy Family in Egypt 39 The Qumran Essenes’ Presence at Amarna 40 Conclusions and Significance of the Discoveries Appendix 1 1956 Letter from the Jerusalem Team and Allegro’s Response Appendix 2 1956 Letter from John Allegro to Frank Moore Cross Appendix 3 Yolanta Zaluska Milik’s Commentary Notes Scroll and Texts Glossary General Glossary Index
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