THE NEW TESTAMENT CODE: The Cup Of The Lord, The Damascus Covenant, And The Blood Of Christ

big fat grey full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xxviii+1053p. 114 photo illustrations. a note on translations. endnotes. chronological charts. genealogies. 3 b&w maps. index. ancient history. archaeology. religion. history of christianity. ancient literature. theology. ~Is there a 'New Testament Code'? Robert Eisenman shows that there is one that extended all the way from rewriting and trivializing real historical material in the Gospels to the actual language of the "New Covenant in the Land of Damascus" itself. In this long~awaited sequel to James the Brother of Jesus, Eisenman not only gives us a full examination of James relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls, he also uncovers the true history of Palestine in the First Century and the real "Jesust of that time. In so doing, he identifies the Scrolls as the literature of the Messianic Movement in Palestine and "decodes" many favorite sayings in the Gospels, such as "Do not throw Holy Things to Dogs." "A Man shall not be known by what goes into the mouth", "Every Plant which my Heavenly Father has not planted shall be uprooted". "These are the signs that the Lord did in Cana of Galilee, and why Judas Iscariot complained." In offering a point~by~point analysis of James relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls, he illumines such subjects as "the Pella Flight" to the wilderness camps, the Scrolls MMT as a "Jamesian" Letter to Northern Syria, and Paul as an Herodian, and demonstrates how, once we have found the Historical James, we have found the Historical Jesus. Not only does Eisenman show Peter as a prototypical Essene who was used in the Book of Acts as a mouthpiece for aboriginal anti~Semitism although in fact, like John the Baptist, he was a "Daily Bather" ~ he also examines the recent discovery of the so~called 'Mausoleum of the Righteous Teacher' and explains why the James Ossuary could not have been authentic. Indeed, he even considers it to have been based on his earlier book on James. Eisenman's many followers will not be disappointed. Robert Eisenman's James the Brother of Jesus discussed how James, Jesus, and Jesus' other brothers should be seen in the context of early Christian history. Now The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ explores both James relationship to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the meaning of his relationship to the Western cultural tradition succeeding it in meticulously analysing key Scroll documents and relating these to their actual context in Palestine and across Northern Syria and Iraq, the author disputes conventional wisdom and generally accepted theories about the meaning of the Scrolls. His analysis casts entirely new light on the movements out of which Christianity evolved and thus the very foundations of Western civilization, outlining a new and revolutionary view of Christianity's origins and its relation to its Jewish roots. At the same time he demonstrates that what actually happened in Palestine in this period is virtually the complete opposite to what must people think happened. After a point~by~point analysis of the connection of James to "The Righteous Teacher" of Qumran, the book concludes with an explanation of the esoteric relationship between the Scrolls "New Covenant in the Land of Damascus and the New Testament's Cup of the New Covenant in the Blood of Christ". In so doing, it not only throws light on how the original documents were inverted and overwritten to produce a more acceptable picture to the Roman Pax Romana, but points to the way in which the Gospels both t.…