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THE BIBLE FRAUD The Church made the "Krist" concept its own, suppressing the fact that it is common to older religious traditions including the Essene, the Egyptian and the Indian. Part 3 of 3 n an attempt to clarify the story of the Judas and Jesus twins, a link must be made between narratives in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospels of the New Testament. In the presentation of this evidence, The Bible Fraud confines its hypothesis to a framework of known historical documents and the probabilities and possibilities of information contained in them. The adopted and general ancient beliefs are the chief sources and have been applied to the broad facts of what is currently accepted, and the minor day-to-day details are a lesser consideration. What must be remembered is that, in correlating this evidence, Gospel information is the primary source on Judas and Jesus, but once "the true name of Jesus Christ" is known, other documentation can be accessed. Much of the Gospel material shall be shown to be riddled with uncertainty, but some narratives contain elements of a well-known tradition. The Dead Sea Scrolls make no mention of Jesus Christ or the early Christian Church. At the time of their discovery, the Professor of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr Yigel Yadin, said the omission was "strange". It has long been known there is information in the Dead Sea Scrolls that is damning to Christian beliefs, and the Church's high-level involvement with interpreting the Scrolls fostered a grave element of suspicion. Since the Scrolls were found some six decades ago, close associates of the Vatican were placed in dominant positions in every phase of the investigation and transla- tion of the Scrolls. The priests regulated the flow of information and controlled its release. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh discovered during research for their work The Dead Sea Scroll Deception (Corgi, 1992) just "how fiercely the world of orthodox biblical scholarship was prepared to fight to retain its monopoly of available information". J. Edgar Hoover, of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), summed up the Church attitude when he once said, "it can be held certain that information that is withheld or sup- pressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression". To provide conclusions on the lives of Judas and Jesus ben Panthera, the highly regard- ed and comprehensive work of Professor Robert Eisenman’ was drawn upon. Professor Eisenman has devoted his life to the specific study of Palestinian history and has analysed and lectured extensively upon the Dead Sea Scrolls and various aspects of Christian ori- gins at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It was Professor Eisenman who provided the now-accepted and spectacular connection between the Dead Sea Scrolls and James, the Gospel brother of Judas and Jesus. This connection established that crucial information had been painstakingly concealed from the public by a small enclave of Catholic priests who controlled the release of the material. Unlike a number of personalities in the New Testament, James was an historical person—one who played a more prominent role in the affairs of his time than is generally acknowledged. At the time of the lives of the ben Panthera twins, the now-called Essenes were one of three religious sects in the Roman provinces, the other two being the Pharisees and Sadducees. The Sadducees were a Jewish sect of the time, opposed to the Pharisees. They denied the resurrection of the dead and the validity of oral tradition.” Old records say that Pharez, who developed a School of Predestination, founded the Pharisees. It seems that the Sadducees were founded by Sadoc, a disciple of Antigonus Scohaeus, the person said to have been associated with the development of an institute called the School of Infidels. Sadducees are mentioned fourteen times in the New Testament; the Pharisees ninety-eight times, mostly in the Gospels. The weight of scholarship heavily supports the argument that the Dead Sea Scrolls found in the caves at Qumran were produced by the by Tony Bushby © 2001 Extracted from chapter 4 of his book The Bible Fraud Published in 2001 by The Pacific Blue Group Inc., Hong Kong Website: http://www.thebiblefraud.com Extracted from chapter 4 of his book The Bible Fraud APRIL — MAY 2002 NEXUS ¢ 39 THE ANOINTED LEADER OF THE ESSENES: Just Who Were the Essenes? by Tony Bushby © 2001 www.nexusmagazine.com