Robert Eisenman (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Robert Eisenman is an American Biblical scholar, writer, historian, archaeologist, and "road" poet who led the campaign to free up access to the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1980s and 90s, and, as a result of this campaign, is widely known for a unique theory that combines "Essenes" with Palestinian Messianism (or what some might refer to as "Palestinian Christianity") - a theory opposed to establishment or "consensus" scholarship. He is also well known for his work in the field of Christian Origins and, in a general way, introducing the public to the character known as "James the brother of Jesus." Before this, Eisenman spent five years "on the road," as it were, in the USA, Europe, and the Middle East as far as India, encapsulating all these things in his poetic travel Diario (1959-62), published in 2007 by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California and called The New Jerusalem, in which he describes the San Francisco "Beat" scene in 1958-59, Paris when still a "Moveable Feast," working on kibbutzim in Israel, the Peace Corps, and several voyages on the overland route to India.