Black Holes In The Dead Sea Scrolls

Ever since the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed in 1947, a small group of scholars has exerted a jealous control over access to the originals. This policy has hindered understanding of these priceless texts. Now expert Robert Feather exposes a shocking conspiracy at the heart of biblical and archaeological studies, and shines a bold--and sure to be controversial--light on the Scrolls, linking the isolated Essene cult at Qumran with Jesus Christ and the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, founder of monotheism.

Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis is a Festschrift crafted to honor a renaissance man: a literary tribute to Dr. Jay Harold Ellens that has been long overdue. While attending the 2014 International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature at the University of Vienna (July 6–10), Professor Ellens celebrated his eighty-second birthday. He is still a most engaged and active scholar, practicing clinical psychologist, and military chaplain (with the rank of Colonel). He publishes widely in Second Temple Judaism, and works that are on the cusp between religious studies/history of religions and psychology, as well as spirituality. He is a marvel to behold and is an excellent, indefatigable Vorbild for both professional colleagues, as well as an ever-growing number of aspiring scholars he mentors. He is the model of the modern peripatetic scholar. The Festschrift acknowledges the major foci of Professor Doctor Ellens’ own work: Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History. Moreover, there are included in this volume several personal reflections by some of his friends and colleagues, also. The essays/chapters contained herein are works of deep and broad scholarship. Yet, they are deeply personal tributes to a master pedagogue who has touched many lives in many walks of life. All, however, reflect Professor Ellens’ influence on the contributors as if one is looking at them through their writings and seeing him. The reader will find this a most informative volume, and will return to it often as an up-to-date reference work on trends in religious studies, psychology, psychology of religion(s), and even the archaeology of the Second Jewish Temple period. One will discover between these covers a rare and valuable reference work that honors a rare, prolific, and generous man.

Inside this full-color digital edition: PROTOSCIENCE Free Energy...Gravity Control...Alternative Science... Exploring the Healing Possibilities of Sound "Sound is the medicine of the future." -Edgar Cayce By Jerry Decker THE FORBIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGIST A Spiritual Pilgrim's Voyage to Alaska By Michael Cremo ALTERNATIVE ENEGRY Secret No more Once Legendary Free-Energy Inventions Are Now Going Public By JEANE MANNING ALTERNATIVE CHEMISTRY CLAIRVOYANT SCIENCE How Mystics Beat Orthodox Physics to the Punch on MicroPsi and String Theory By BRENDAN D. MURPHY ALTERNATIVE PHYSICS Gravity's Riddle Might it be a PUSH and not a Pull? MENTAL POWERS The Promise of REMOTE VIEWING Our Subtle Senses Could Be More Valuable than Some Would Have Us Believe By PATRICK MARSOLEK FORGOTTEN HISTORY Goddess in the Vatican? The Citadels of Christian Culture Often Have Surprising Origins By STEVEN SORA ALTERNATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY Echoes of Lemuria The Pre-Flood Story of Thailand's Amazing Temples By FRANK JOSEPH ANCIENT MYSTERIES THE MYSTERIES OF ZOROASTER Tracking a 12,000 Year Old Catastrophe By ROBERT M. SCHOCH, Ph.D. ET INVESTIGATION Is Anybody Home? The Search for ET Goes into Hyperdrive By MARTIN RUGGLES DEEPER THINKING Worlds Without End The Belief in Infinite Possibilities Is Nothing New By WILLIAM B. STOECKER CONVERSATIONS Still An Outrage to the House of History Graham Hancock's New Book Offers No Comfort to His Critics By CYNTHIA LOGAN ASTROLOGY Planetary Harmonics The Music of the Spheres By Julie Loar DVD KNOWING WHAT IS COMING Can 'What', and 'When', We Know, Make the Difference Between Right and Wrong? By Marsha Oaks Knowing what we now know, would we still have done the things that we did? That question is actually relevant to many areas of human endeavor, as in all three of our current DVD offerings.

Black holes are a constant source of fascination to many due to their mysterious nature. In this Very Short Introduction, Katherine Blundell addresses a variety of questions, including what a black hole actually is, how they are characterized and discovered, and what would happen if you came too close to one. She explains how black holes form and grow - by stealing material that belongs to stars, as well as how many there may be in the Universe. She also explores the large black holes found in the centres of galaxies, and how black holes give rise to quasars and other spectacular phenomena in the cosmos. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Thirty international scholars probe the main disputed issues in the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays engage with the lively debate continues over the archaeology and history of the site, the nature and identity of the sect, and its relation to the broader world of Second Temple Judaism and to later Jewish and Christian tradition.

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The story of a young Bedouin goatherd who found some dark oblong objects, which turned out to be a series of scrolls.