Author: Robert Eisenman File Type: pdf This is the follow-up work to Prof. Eisenmans Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians, and Qumran A New Hypothesis of Qumran Origins, in which he attempts to prove in a case-by-case manner some of the hypotheses he suggested in that original ground-breaking work. Both works turn out to be, surprisingly enough, just about exactly the same number of pages and what Prof. Eisenman does in this short volume is to go through what is known by scholars as The Habakkuk Pesher and laymen, The Habakkuk Commentary Pesher in Hebrew having the same sense as Commentary in English in a line-by-line, passage-by-passage fashion and meticulously set forth just how they can relate to known events, ideas, and happenstances known from and associated with the life of James or as all Early Christian accounts would have it James the Just (the cognomen, the Just One of course, being at all times all-important) or James the Zaddik.. As everyone knows, he has expanded this in two 1000+ page books since James the Brother of Jesus The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997-98) and The New Testament Code The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006) and two shorter ones James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls I and II (2012 and 2013) but these two initial volumes represent his first forays into this territory. Once again, despite the impression by a few critics, who try make light of or marginalize his theories or scholarship (as if they could produce anything better) as in MZCQ, he absolutely distinguishes between the Spouter of Lies or Lying (the so-called Liar or Scoffer for Eisenman, a more accurate translation of this last being the Jester) and the Wicked Priest and this dichotomy has withstood the test of time and initiated a host of imitators. Not only does he make it clear despite some simplistic Consensus theorizing that these two are utterly different but, in doing so, he absolutely confirms through internal analysis a First Century CE date for principal Qumran original Documents (called by so-called consensus scholars, Sectarian), a position he already basically set forth in MZCQ. The first, of course, is an internal ideological Adversary of the hero of the Scrolls, the Righteous Teacher the Liar who denied the Law in the midst of their entire Congregation the second, the present Establishment High Priest and this, definitively not a Maccabean but the reigning Herodian one. It is he who is responsible for the death or destruction of the Righteous Teacher and some of those with him called revealingly the Poor the Ebionim in the Hebrew of the Scrolls and very probably equivalent to the Ebionites of Early Church History about whom Eusebius in the 4th Century is so contemptuous and scathing of. These and many other things are meticulously delineated in this, Eisenmans first foray into a line-by-line decipherment of the Habakkuk Pesher having already dealt definitively and in detail with the twin issues of Archaeology and Paleography in MZCQ preceding it. Both of these very-hard-to-acquire books will not, it is hoped, disappoint, Prof. Eisenmans many admirers. **About the Author Robert Eisenman is the author of The New Testament Code The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006), James the Brother of Jesus The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians (1996), Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel A History of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shariah (1978), and co-editor of The Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1989), The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (1992), and James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls Volumes I and II (2012). Robert is an Emeritus Professor of Middle East Religions and Archaeology and the former Director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian Origins at California State University Long Beach and Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College, Oxford. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University in Philosophy and Engineering Physics (1958), an M.A. from New York University in Near Eastern Studies (1966), and a Ph.D from Columbia University in Middle East Languages and Cultures and Islamic Law (1971). He was a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and an American Endowment for the Humanities Fellow-in-Residence at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first examined. In 1991-92, he was the Consultant to the Huntington Library in San Marino, California on its decision to open its archives and allow free access for all scholars to the previously unpublished Scrolls. In 2002, he was the first to publicly announce that the so-called James Ossuary, which so suddenly and miraculously appeared, was fraudulent and he did this on the very same day it was made public on the basis of the actual inscription itself and what it said without any scientific or pseudoscientific aids.

Author: Jean-Michel Quinodoz File Type: pdf

Author: Ian Nairn File Type: epub 50th Anniversary of original publication this is a unique Paris guidebook from the late, great, architecture and travel writer Ian Nairn. Illustrated with the authors black and white snaps of the city, Nairn shows his eye for detail - whether it is stonework on an archway, shadows cast by a railing, or an empty chair in a Paris park, in this book which celebrates the City of Light. Nairns Paris captures the city on the cusp of great changes and provides a glimpse of a city that is about to disappear. Here is an idiosyncratic and unpretentious portrait of the collective masterpiece that is Paris. Introduced by writer and BBC presenter Andrew Hussey, author of the popular Paris The Secret History. About one third of the book is discovery, in the sense that I came upon the sites by accident or by following a topographical hunch. There must be many more, and all you need for the search is the ability to turn off the main road, switch on your antennae and respond. Good luck. - Ian Nairn **

Author: William McNeill File Type: epub Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic in Europe, the history of disease is the history of humankind. With the identification of AIDS in the early 1980s, another chapter has been added to this chronicle of events, which William McNeill explores in his new introduction to this updated editon. Thought-provoking, well-researched, and compulsively readable, Plagues and Peoples is that rare book that is as fascinating as it is scholarly, as intriguing as it is enlightening. A brilliantly conceptualized and challenging achievement (Kirkus Reviews), it is essential reading, offering a new perspective on human history. **Amazon.com Review No small themes for historian William McNeill he is a writer of big, sweeping books, from The Rise of the West to The History of the World. Plagues and Peoples considers the influence of infectious diseases on the course of history, and McNeill pays special attention to the Black Death of the 13th and 14th centuries, which killed millions across Europe and Asia. (At one point, writes McNeill, 10,000 people in Constantinople alone were dying each day from the plague.) With the new crop of plagues and epidemics in our own time, McNeills quiet assertion that in any effort to understand what lies ahead the role of infectious disease cannot properly be left out of consideration takes on new significance. From the Publisher McNeills highly acclaimed work is a brilliant and challenging account of the effects of disease on human history. His sophisticated analysis and detailed grasp of the subject make this book fascinating reading. By the author of The Rise Of The West.