1. Robert Eisenman was born on 1937 and is an American biblical scholar, historian, archaeologist, and poet.
20 Facts About Robert Eisenman
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Robert Eisenman is currently professor of Middle East religions, archaeology, and Islamic law and director of the Institute for the Study of Judaeo-Christian Origins at California State University Long Beach.
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Robert Eisenman received a PhD Degree from Columbia University in Middle East languages and cultures in 1971 with a minor in Jewish Studies and a major in Islamic law, where he studied with Joseph Schacht.
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Robert Eisenman is professor of Middle East religions, archaeology, and Islamic law and the director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian and Islamic Origins at California State University Long Beach.
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Robert Eisenman is a visiting senior member of Linacre College, Oxford University, and was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.
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Robert Eisenman grew up in South Orange, New Jersey and went to Columbia High School in Maplewood, but skipped his senior year to take up an acceptance in the Engineering Physics Department at Cornell University.
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Robert Eisenman left college and immediately took to the road, but now not nationally, internationally.
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Robert Eisenman then hitchhiked back across the country and returned to Paris.
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The next Spring, after staying in monasteries throughout Israel, and a climactic fight with the future Israeli "Peace Pilot" at the California Cafe in Tel Aviv; Robert Eisenman made the last overland run from Cyprus, across Turkey, Iran, Beluchistan, and Pakistan by bus, train, and boat to India, where he ended his journey as a guest of, and sleeping in, the Jewish Synagogue of New Delhi, most of whose members were up in the Simla Hill States because it was high summer and monsoon.
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Robert Eisenman returned to Paris over the Indian Ocean, up the Red Sea, and across the Mediterranean.
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From about 1986 onwards, Robert Eisenman became the leading figure in the struggle to release and free the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Robert Eisenman sent a copy of this computer-generated print-out to the editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, Hershel Shanks, which created a huge stir in the office and the campaign to free the Scrolls really began in earnest.
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Robert Eisenman encouraged him to do so, though he knew the library would get most of the credit for breaking the monopoly and Robinson and he very little.
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Robert Eisenman sees parallels between the political, religious and ethical stance of these sectarian documents and that of James the brother of Jesus, whom he identifies as the scrolls' Teacher of Righteousness, and sees 'the Wicked Priest' and 'the Man of Lying' as two different adversaries of the Scroll community, the Wicked Priest being the High Priest Ananus ben Ananus, James' executioner, and the Man of Lying, Paul the Apostle.
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Robert Eisenman is critical of the ways radiocarbon dating and paleography have been employed to date the Dead Sea Scrolls, and relies instead on his interpretation of the content of the scrolls despite this being at a clash with scientific consensus.
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For Robert Eisenman this is a direct riposte and a rejection of the Pauline interpretation of this prophecy, and the basis of the Pauline theology one finds in Galatians and Romans and actually, in fact, seemingly argued against in the extant Epistle of James whether seen as authentic, not authentic, or just part of 'the Jamesian School'; and, therefore, Robert Eisenman claims, a chronological indicator for the document as a whole.
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Robert Eisenman identifies Paul as a Herodian, calling attention to Paul's peculiar version of Judaism.
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Robert Eisenman covered this in a series of papers and books beginning in 1984.
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Robert Eisenman identifies this individual as Julius Archelaus, the son of Saulos' sister, Cypros.
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Robert Eisenman was the first to publicly claim that the James Ossuary was fraudulent when it originally surfaced in October 2002, doing so on the first day the story appeared in news articles published by the Associated Press and op-ed pieces in the Los Angeles Times.