it's off my reading list then.
I still have Barbara Thiering's (a top Dead Sea Scrolls scholar)
Jesus & the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls written in 1992 which has been ripped off by everyone including Dan Brown.
She was the first to say JC lived to 64 years of age and claims the Bible is actually very literal but mis-interpreted.
examples from her deciphering of the Scrolls..
a virgin in JC's time actually meant a woman who had not had her first child..not a virgin as we see it, so Jesus being the first born was a virgin birth.
And when he '
walked on water"..that was ritual done by rabbis whereby they walked on a small platform under the water, out abut 40 feet out to sea but when Jesus did it he was being sacriligous...
She relates many similar tales that have lost their meanings over the years including how JC was crucified but not to death as it was one punishment to teach people that of they went too far they would be crucified and left to hang there until they died.
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Which brings me to a tale where I as an 8 year old had a 6 inch house nail driven accidentaly through my foot so it obviously runs in the family !
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