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oa Jakobus de Rechtvaardige: een anti-Romeinse rebel?
De ‘Dead Sea Scrolls ’ en de ‘Deception’
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, Volume 49, Issue 3, Jul 1995, p. 215 - 230
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- 01 Jul 1995
Abstract
Abstract
The article demonstrates, by means of the analysis of a few pages of Baigent & Leigh’s bestseller The dead Sea Scrolls Deception, that the authors wittingly twisted their sources in support of Eisenman’s theory of James the Righteous as a zealot ‘opposition high priest’, who should be identified as the ‘Teacher of Righteousness’ mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The analysis consists in a close collation of Eusebius’ account of the murder of James (Hist. Eccl. II, 23, 4-24) with the way the authors quote and interprete this text: it leads to the conclusion that they made a well-considered attempt to mislead the general public.
© Daniel Hombergen