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by Marvin Vining
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RELIGION / CHRISTIAN STUDIES "Marvin Vining has produced a fascinating and engaging book with a provocative thesis--namely that the Dead Sea Scrolls refer directly to Jesus of Nazareth and that the Essene movement that they represent opposed him as the character they called 'The Wicked Priest.' This sort of connection between Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls, both in terms of chronology and history, has been dismissed by almost all scholars in the field. Vining skillfully puts the case back on the table. He deserves a careful reading by non-specialists and those in the academy alike."--James D. Tabor, Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Religious Studies, UNC Charlotte, and author of The Jesus Dynasty"Vining's work is remarkable Christian scholarship. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Essenes, Jesus, and the early Christian Church."--Clayton Sullivan, author of Rescuing Jesus from the ChristiansThe Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 at Qumran, are generally believed to have been written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes between 350 BCE and 70 CE--but until now no convincing methodology has linked the Scrolls to the actual life and teachings of Jesus. Marvin Vining builds from the controversial work of Barbara Thiering to demonstrate that the Scrolls do speak directly to the origins of Christianity and even reflect a mirror image of the Gospels from the perspective of Jesus's enemies.Christianity arose out of a schism between the exclusivist, rigid, and militant views of the Essenes and the inclusivist, tolerant, and nonviolent views of Jesus. Jesus was raised an Essene, but he refused to follow their orthodoxy. Vining shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in a secret coded language called pesher in which Jesus emerges as the Wicked Priest, the antagonist to the Teacher of Righteousness who was the leader of the Essenes. Jesus the Wicked Priest revitalizes the Gospel message by rescuing Jesus's legacy from the Essenes' disinformation to reveal his true role as a tireless social reformer and revolutionary teacher. Vining's study reopens Christian doctrinal questions supposedly long settled, such as reincarnation and the Virgin birth--even demonstrating that these two issues are related. He discloses that the angel Gabriel was incarnate in a living human being and transmitted the seed of a holy bloodline to the Virgin Mary.MARVIN VINING, an attorney who is in the process of ordination in the United Methodist Church, spent 14 years researching and writing this book. He is a Biblical scholar who holds a master's degree in philosophy and has studied theology for many years. He lives in Mississippi, and his website is www.MarvinVining.com.
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- Title Jesus the Wicked Priest: How Christianity Was Born of an Essene Schism
- Author Marvin Vining
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bear & Company, Rochester, VT
- Date 2008-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781591430810 / 159143081X
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.88 x 6.07 x 0.71 in (22.56 x 15.42 x 1.80 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Essenes - Miscellanea, Jesus Christ - Person and offices -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007046006
- Dewey Decimal Code 232.9
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