James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea ScrollsPenguin, 1998 M03 1 - 1136 páginas "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 Nazirite. In 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 Testament.Drawing 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 contacts. James 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 such. In delineating the deliberate falsifications in New Testament dcouments, Eisenman shows how—as James was written out—anti-Semitism was written in. By 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. |
Contenido
FirstCentury Sources Mentioning James | |
Early Church Sources and the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
The First Appearance of James in Acts | |
The Picture of James in Pauls Letters | |
James Succession and the Election to Fill Judas Iscariots Office | |
The Election of James in Early Church Tradition | |
THE BROTHERS OF JESUS AS APOSTLES | |
The Apostleship of James Cephas and John | |
James the First to See Jesus | |
Last Supper Scenarios the Emmaus Road and the Cup of the Lord | |
Jesus Brothers as Apostles | |
Simeon bar Cleophas and Simon the Zealot | |
JAMESIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE EAST | |
Judas the Brother of James and the Conversion of King Agbar | |
James Rechabitism and Naziritism | |
James Vegetarianism Abstention from Blood and Consuming | |
James Bathing and Clothing Habits | |
James as Opposition High Priest and Oblias | |
THE DEATH OF JAMES | |
The Stoning of James and the Stoning of Stephen | |
The Death of James in its Historical Setting | |
The Attack by Paul on James and the Attack on Stephen | |
The Truth About the Death of James | |
Peters Visit to Cornelius and Simons Visit to Agrippa | |
The Conversion of Queen Helen and the Ethiopian Queens Eunuch | |
Judas Thomas and Theuda the Brother of the Just | |
Epilogue | |
Chronological Charts | |
Note on Translations | |
Notes | |
FOR THE BEST IN PAPERBACKS LOOK FOR | |
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