The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
- The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception
"The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception" (1991, ISBN 0-671-73454-7) is a non-fiction book by authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.
Rejecting the established, peer-reviewed consensus that the Dead Sea scrolls were the work of a marginal Jewish apocalyptic movement, and following primarily the thesis of Robert Eisenman, the authors argued that the Scrolls were the work of Jewish zealots who had much in common with, and may have been identical to, the early followers of Jesus led by his brother James the Just. This provides a different version of the history of early Christianity. Leigh and Baigent describe how the scrolls were kept under wraps for decades by a team dominated by Catholic scholars under the leadership of Dominican monk Roland de Vaux. They contend that the preconceptions of De Vaux and other members of the team led them to ignore evidence of probable first century provenance for many of the scrolls and instead consign them safely to the distant past.
Criticism
The book was severely criticised by Hershel Shanks of Biblical Archaeology Review [http://www.bib-arch.org/DaVinci/bswbDaVinciSubPage.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=17&Issue=6&ArticleID=11]
Notes
ee also
*Gnosticism and the New Testament
*Historicity of Jesus
*Jesus as myth
*The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
*John Allegro
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