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“Every Plant Which My Heavenly Father Has Not Planted Shall Be Uprooted,”

With Noelle Magana, from Sources of the Jesus Tradition, ed. R. Joseph Hoffman, 2010. What I would like to do in this essay is to show that the famous aphorism, “Every Plant which My Heavenly Father has not Planted Shall be Uprooted,” attributed to Jesus in the Synoptics, which comes following a long diatribe condemning the […]

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Sicarii Essenes, “Those of the Circumcision”, and Qumran

The Journal of Higher Criticism, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring 2006 sic_essenes

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“‘Ad,’ ‘Thamud,’ ‘Hud,’ and ‘Salih’ as Reflecting Edessene/Northern Syrian Conversion Stories

Journal of Higher Criticism, Fall 2005. ‘Ad,’ ‘Thamud,’ ‘Hud,’ and ‘Salih’ as Reflecting EdesseneNorthern Syrian Conversion Stories about ‘Thomas,’ ‘Addai”Thaddaeus’, ‘Yehudah’ ( ‘Judas Thomas”Judas the Zealot”Judas Barsabas’ ), and James.

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Northern Syria as an Area for Many Language References at Qumran

Paper presented at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Denver, 2005. Northern Syria as an Area for Many Language References at Qumran

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MMT as Jamesian Letter to “The Great King of the Peoples Beyond the Euphrates”

The Journal of Higher Criticism vol. 11, no.1, Spring 2005.  

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An Esoteric Relation between Qumran’s “New Covenant in the Land of Damascus”

Revue de Qumran, vol. 21, no. 83, March 2004.  

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The James Ossuary: Is It Authentic?

Folia Orientalia, vol. 38, 2002. The James Ossuary Is It Authentic

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Archaeological GPR investigations at Rennes-Le-Château, France.

From Jol, H.M., DeChaine, R.J. and Eisenman, R., 2002. Ninth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, Edited by S.K. Koppenjan and H. Lee, April 29 – May 2, Santa Barbara, CA, Proceedings of SPIE (the International Society for Optical Engineering), Vol. 4758: 125 – 129. Introduction The hillside town of Rennes-le-Château is located in Languedoc, southern France […]

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“Re-erecting the Fallen Tent of David” in a Land “North” of Damascus at Qumran and in Acts’ “Jerusalem Council”.

Paper presented at SBL, Rome 2001. Re-erecting the Fallen Tent of David in a Land North of Damascus at Qumran and in Acts’ Jerusalem Council.

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The 1988-92 California State University Dead Sea Walking Cave Survey and Radar Groundscan of the Qumran Cliffs

 The Qumran Chronicle, vol. 9, no. 2, December 2000. The 1988-92 California State University Dead Sea Walking Cave Survey and Radar Groundscan of the Qumran Cliffs

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Paul as Herodian

Paper given at Society of Biblical Literature conference in 1984; published in Journal of Higher Criticism, Vol. 3, Spring 1996, pp. 110-122. THERE are materials in the New Testament, early Church literature, Rabbinic literature, and Josephus which point to some connection between Paul and so-called “Herodians.” These materials provide valuable insight into problems related to […]

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The Sociology of MMT and the Conversions of King Agbarus and Queen Helen of Adiabene.

Paper presented at SBL conference, 1992. The Sociology of MMT and the Conversions of King Agbarus and Queen Helen of Adiabene.

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The Desecration of the Scrolls, Midstream Magazine, Dec. 1991.

 Midstream Magazine, Dec. 1991. The Desecration of the Scrolls, Midstream Magazine

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A Response to Schiffman on MMT

Paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature in 1991. Joining/Joiners, ‘Arizei-Go’im, and the Simple of Ephraim Relating to a Cadre of Gentile God-Fearers at Qumran. The Qumran Chronicle 1990/91, no. 2/3. A Response to Schiffman on MMT

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Eschatological “Rain” Imagery in the War Scroll from Qumran and in the Letter of James

Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 49 no. 2 1990. Eschatological Rain Imagery in the War Scroll from Qumran and in the Letter of James

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The Historical Provenance of the “Three Nets of Belial” Allusion in the Zadokite Document and Balla’/Bela’ in the Temple Scroll,

Interpreting some Esotericisms: The King of the Peoples, the Princes of Judah and Gehazi in the Damascus Document. Paper given to the Society of Biblical Literature in 1989. Folia Orientalia, volume 25, 1988. (First given as an NEH Fellow at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research in Jerusalem in a Joint Session with the Ecole Biblique in November, 1985.) […]

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Interpreting ‘Abeit Galuto in the Habakkuk Pesher: Playing on and Transmuting Words

Folia Orientalia, vol. 26, 1989. Presented at Groningen Conference in Holland in 1989. Interpreting Abeit Galuto in the Habakkuk Pesher Playing on and Transmuting Words

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Confusions of Pharisees and Essenes in Josephus.

Presented at the Society of Biblical Literature in 1981. Confusions of Pharisees and Essenes in Josephus.

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The Meaning of ‘Dead Lands’, Manchester Guardian

March 22, 1981. Manchester Guardian Meaning of Dead Lands

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The Zaddik-Idea and the Zadokite Priesthood.

 Presented at the Society of Biblical Literature in 1979. The Zaddik-Idea and the Zadokite Priesthood

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