The Jews In Qumran

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
9 min readOct 19, 2024

ROBERT EISENMAN & MICHAEL WISE — THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS UNCOVERED — 1992

The long subtitle is the stake of an essential question. “The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years.” It is clear they were withheld by the Israeli state. Why, it is not clear, even after reading the whole book. It can only be explained by two main motivations. The first one is that these documents reveal that the Jewish faith or doctrine contained in the Old Testament at the time of Jesus Christ, just slightly before his apparition in the picture to just a little bit after his crucifixion, but also after the stoning of his brother James on the illegal, at least irregular decision of the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem, reveal the phylogeny of the three Abrahamic religions that emerged from these one hundred years between let’s say 70 BCE and 70 AD.

Robert Eisenman was the discoverer, and he was swift enough to have all the documents photographed before entrusting them to the Israeli state. He was thus able to publish or release a facsimile of these documents against the will of this Israeli state.

The second explanation is that these documents reveal the deep inner ideological reality of these Jews belonging to this Dead Sea community, and the revelation is brutal. More about it in…

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Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, PhD in Germanic Linguistics (University Lille III) and ESP Teaching (University Bordeaux II) has been teaching all types of ESP