Robert Eisenman

Robert H. Eisenman is an American archaeologist. He is a professor of religion and archeology of the Middle East and director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian and Islamic Prehistory at California State University, Long Beach. He is also a Visiting Senior Member of Linacre College at the University of Oxford and is considered Qumran specialist.

Life

Eisenman studied at Cornell University and earned a degree (BA ) in Philosophy and Technical Physics. He made a MA degree from New York University, where his focus this time was in the range of Middle East Studies. Subsequently, he obtained his doctorate at Columbia University on languages ​​and culture of the Middle East.

He sat down for an instrumental to make the scrolls accessible to the public from the Dead Sea and was within the group of supporters of an opening between 1987 and 1992 one of the principal heads. Among other things, he was co-editor of a facsimile edition (1989) and translated the texts. He served as a consultant for the Huntington Library in California and was instrumental supported the decision to open the archives.

Eisenman was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and was a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies.

Publications (selection)

• James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher. Brill, Leiden, 1986, ISBN 90-04-07587-9 ( Studia Post- Biblica. Band 35).
• Michael O. Wise: The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. 1992, ISBN 1852303689th Jesus and the early Christians. The Dead Sea Scrolls decrypted. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-570-02214-5.

• James, the brother of Jesus. The key to the mystery of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-570-00071-0.