authorities. Modern Iran is a perfect example of the political conditions that prevailed nearly two thousand years ago.
There was a modern writer in modern times, who created a revolutionary approach to the context of the probable life of Jesus and the social conditions which were to lead to the crucifixion and beyond. He did it in his own original and enviable fashion. This was Professor Schoenberg who brought the period back to life and created an impressive scenario which lent a curious reality to the circumstances surrounding Jesus´s life and so called death. Professor Schoenberg took a great deal of support from the then published, controversial Dead Sea Scrolls, to the extent of attributing a particular text to Jesus´s own words during his claimed convalescence in the Essene monastery. Professor Eisemann who may have inspired him however, was one of the most imaginative of the scroll decipherers and he had little doubt about the contemporary nature of the texts and of its authorship during Jesus´s own lifetime. He brought out a wide variety of significant aspects of the scrolls that in my mind proved the point. Some of these points were to lead me to very interesting and missed observations in the bible texts. It also drew me to the commentaries through the centuries by the outstanding writers of each period who betrayed their beliefs associated with the hidden traditions of early Christianity. I filed these away as Caskets of Evidence” in a chapter of my new book on the Knights Templars.
In my mind (and Eiseman´s) there is no doubt that the Essenes and the Nazarenes were much of the same order of things. I did however form the opinion from reading Professor Higgins mammoth works on etymology that the Carmelites were a very
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