Robert Eisenman
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Dr. Robert H. Eisenman is a Professor of Middle East Religions and Archaeology and 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 University. The consultant to the Huntington Library in its decision to free the Dead Sea scrolls, he was the leading figure in the worldwide campaign to gain access to the scrolls. A National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, he was a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.
He is most famous for having completed a translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls in only 6 months, and for his radical understanding of the early Christian community as one imitating the Nasoreans, who still exist today as the priests of the Mandaeans. His theory that John the Baptist did not recognise or authorise the mission of Jesus backs up the history of the Mandaeans - though he did not refer to them specifically in his work - and explains many historical anomalies.
[edit] Books
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (with Michael Wise), 1992, ISBN 1852303689
- James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls. New York: Viking, 1997, ISBN 1842930265
- The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ, 2006, Duncan Baird Publishers / Watkins, ISBN 1842931865.
