The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956. Now Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, co-authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, have succeeded in uncovering what has been described as 'the academic scandal par excellence of the twentieth century': the story of how and why up to 75 per cent of the eight hundred ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts, hidden for some nineteen centuries, have, until very recently, remained concealed from the rest of the world. Through interviews, historical analysis and a close study of both published and unpublished scroll material, the authors are able to reveal the true cause of the bitter struggle between scholars, for these documents disclose nothing less than a new account of the origins of Christianity and an alternative and highly significant version of the New Testament.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

Religion & Spirituality

Michael Baigent

Richard Leigh

Christian Books & Bibles

Arrow

The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail

A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Henry Lincoln

History

Arrow Books, Ltd.

RANDOM HOUSE UK

From the authors of the bestseller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, comes a new book on the origins of Freemasonry. Its mysterious beginnings in the fourteenth century through currents of thought and political upheavals surrounding it in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Europe are charted. "Compelling...sane and informed...Written with gripping academic-detective style."--TorontoStar. 36 black-and-white photographs.

Temple And The Lodge

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Guild Publishing

Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail

Dell

Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Jesus, the Shocking Legacy of the Grail

Delta

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?\n Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?\n Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?\n Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?\n Is it possible that these parchments contain the very heart of the mystery of the Holy Grail?\n\nAccording to the authors of this extraordinarily provocative, meticulously researched book, not only are these things possible - they are probably true! so revolutionary, so original, so convincing, that the most faithful Christians will be moved; here is the book that has sparked worldwide controversey.\n\n"Enough to seriously challenge many traditional Christian beliefs, if not alter them."\n- Los Angeles Times Book Review\n\n"Like Chariots of the Gods?...the plot has all the elements of an international thriller."\n- Newsweek

Corgi

New Age & Spirituality

Investigates why the contents of the earliest biblical manuscripts, found forty years ago, are still being withheld from the general public and studies unpublished materials that provide some startling new views about the early Christians. 40,000 first printing.

Simon&Schuster

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

Simon Prebble

Random House Audio Publishing Group

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