The fact is that the minute the scrolls were discovered they sent certain Christian theologians into a theological panic. After all, scrolls were hidden during the Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in 66 CE (AD) and 132 CE. If they were hidden in 66, that’s less than 50 years after the crucifixion of Jesus. What if they said something that contradicted Christian theology? So…the minute they were discovered, a team of theologian scholars declared them to be a forgery. When it was clear that they were the real thing, the theologian scholars descended on the scrolls and kept them out of the public eye for 43 years! The team was headed by Father Roland Guerin de Vaux and included at least one other priest, Father Jozef Milik. Besides translating some Biblical texts, their main accomplishment was to date the scrolls earlier than Jesus, and allow no public access to them. This was very important for the Church. Why? Because the scrolls talked about a “Teacher of Righteousness” who suffered at the hands of a “wicked priest” and a “spouter of lies”. You can see the problem; what if the “Teacher of Righteousness” is somehow related to Jesus? Professor Robert Eisenman has always maintained that “Teacher of Righteousness” is a Dead Sea Scroll code for “James, the Brother of Jesus”, known as James the “Righteous”. If the teacher is James, maybe Paul – James’ competitor and the founder of Christianity – is “the spouter of lies”, that the scrolls talk about. You can see the problem. If Eisenman is right, then the people who knew Jesus rejected what came to be defined as Christianity. simchajtv/the-dead-sea-scroll-cover-up-continues-to-unfold/
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