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If the story in the gospel is not historical one to begin with could argue that the detail was made to conform to the description of the proper place to make sacrifices rather than a historical detail.

Again I ask why does it have to be 'Jesus = Essene' on Eisenman's terms? This is what is so baffling. Why can't you skate past the whole issue of carbon dating by saying - yes, the Essenes were older than Jesus. Yes, the Essenes had a history before the apostles. No, I don't think the stuff Eisenman...

"why some Dead Sea Scrolls were radio-carbon dated to the 1st century A.D." Who could pretend to be this fucking stupid at a forum which regularly deals with the relative lateness of manuscripts? We have fourteenth century manuscripts of Josephus. WTF does that have to do with when Josephu...

Of course I am the sock puppet. I made the clear at the outset unlike some people ...

I have always found it odd that there could be two die hard believers in Eisenman's theories after the C14 data (x 2) invalidated its claims. Now we have two John Does accusing me of being a pitbull of Eisenman's traditional rival. Who else could be arranging this choreographed circus? If scholars o...