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Christianity, for one thing. LIVE from Golgotha takes a shocking look at Jesus' claim as the Messiah and at those who, like St. Paul and St. Timothy, spread the word. Though the author has personally never progressed beyond a manual Smith Corona ("I have spent my life changing ribbons"), he has a sophisticated knowledge of computer gadgetry and a puddle jumper's expertise at time tripping...
Amid all the hokum, however, the latest discoveries on actual details in the scrolls are startling enough to generate legitimate headlines. Texts that are only now becoming widely available establish the first connection between the scrolls and Jesus' New Testament words about his role as the Messiah. The debate over all the possible inthed material was mostly thousands of fragments, making reconstruction extremely difficult and interpretations open to dispute. Scholars on the official committee worked on these remaining texts at a painfully slow pace while granting others severely limited access. By the late 1980s, scholarly temperatures reached the boiling point...
Such links with Christianity, of course, depend on whether the scrolls were written in Jesus' era pparently referring to the coming Messiah, the text declares that he will "heal the wounded, resurrect the dead ((and)) preach glad tidings to the poor." The passage closely resembles the words of Jesus in the Nazareth synagogue (Luke 4) ty concern is simply to find out what this text means." He asserts that here and in parallel passages, the Dead Sea Messiah "appears as triumphant -- as is usually the case. That is the normal Jewish tradition." Eisenman says either translation is possible, whereas Wise...
...MARITIME MESSIAH...
...Mealtime Messiah, along with many other New England residents, responded to a plea from hungry sailors on the undersupplied tall ship Sedov. The Sedov, participating in this summer's Sail Boston festivities, found both its money and its food supply had run dangerously low as the ship arrived in Beantown...