The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Groundbreaking revelations about the leadership of the early Christian Church - a challenging work of historical detection revealing deliberated falsifications in New Testament documents.
Was James - rather than Peter - the true Spiritual heir to Jesus? 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 a most entirely marginalised in the New Testament.
Drawing on suppressed early Church texts and the revelations in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Eisenman suggests that it was James, not Peter, who 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, whereas James is presented, not simply as a 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!
