James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls-Fast Shipping

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“A passionate quest for the historical James refigures Christian origins, … can be enjoyed as a thrilling essay in historical detection.” —The Guardian

James was a vegetarian, wore only linen clothing, bathed daily at dawn in cold water, and was a life-long this profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, eminent biblical scholar Robert Eisenman introduces a startling theory about the identity of James—the brother of Jesus, who was almost entirely marginalized in the New on long-overlooked early Church texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Eisenman reveals in this groundbreaking exploration that James, not Peter, was the real successor to the movement we now call “Christianity.” In an argument with enormous implications, Eisenman identifies Paul as deeply compromised by Roman is presented as not simply the leader of Christianity of his day, but the popular Jewish leader of his time, whose death triggered the Uprising against Rome—a fact that creative rewriting of early Church documents has obscured.
Eisenman reveals that characters such as “Judas Iscariot” and “the Apostle James” did not exist as delineating the deliberate falsifications in New Testament dcouments, Eisenman shows how—as James was written out—anti-Semitism was written rescuing James from the oblivion into which he was cast, the final conclusion of
James the Brother of Jesus is, in the words of
The Jerusalem Post, “apocalyptic” —who and whatever James was, so was Jesus.