- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: INNER TRADITIONS INTL (Jun 30 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1591430143
- ISBN-13: 978-1591430148
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.3 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #572,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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?Robert Feather has been able to uncover the first link between Akhenaten and the Qumran community, through the Copper Scroll. This new evidence will completely change our understanding of the relationship between biblical Moses and historical Akhenaten.?
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The famous Dead Sea Scrolls compromise the oldest collection of Biblical documents ever discovered. Of the Dead Sea Scrolls, none has baffled experts more than the 2,000-year-old Copper Scroll, discovered in 1952 by a team of Bedouin led by Henri Contenson of the Ecole Biblique in Eastern Jerusalem. Appearing to be a list of buried treasure engraved on copper pieces, the Copper Scroll is considered to be the work of a highly secretive Jewish sect of devout Essenes, who lived by the Dead Sea around the time of Jesus. No one has been able to explain its meaning or discover any of the 64 locations where the biblical treasures it lists were buried. Now Robert Feather, combining his scientific background as a metallurgist with his journalistic expertise, has unravelled the enigma of the Copper Scroll in a fascinating study that takes the reader on a journey from ancient Mesopotamia, through Canaan, into Egypt and back to the shores of the Dead Sea. His exploration links the scroll to the Ancient Egyptian king Akhhenaten, confirming a long suspected influence of this pharaoh's religious beliefs on those of the Hebrews.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Where did akhenatens treasure GO??? By Queen Kiya wife no 2,
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This review is from: Mystery Of The Copper Scroll Of Qumran (Paperback)
I loved reading this book the author has done a lot of reserch about the subject, it was always intriguing it was like being on a mystical treasure hunt. If you like reading about akhehnaten this is something different from the usual akhenaten books. Well done Robert Feather.
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This review is from: Mystery Of The Copper Scroll Of Qumran (Paperback)
One of the reviews of my book, by an anonymous reader, states I have some responsibility for recent damage at Amarna by treasure hunters, because I suggest possible locations of treasure in my book.Firstly the recent damage was to boundary stelae, which I never suggested were treasure locations. Not even an idiot blows up a place where he or she is looking for valuables. This was clearly an act of vandalism in a region where political dissension and resentment has an ongoing history. Robbery at Amarna, and for that matter tombs and historical sites across Egypt has been going on for thousands of years, and is still going on. Am I responsible for these too? I deplore these acts. Patently it is nonsense and small minded to suggest anyone should stop indicating the possible location of artefacts. There are dozens of books and articles on the treasures of the Copper Scroll, citing possible places of treasures. Are they all to be withdrawn from publication - not to mention every other work that postulates potential new places where something important lies hidden. The nameless reader claims the book contains fabrications. I challenge him, or her, to say what has been fabricated. A number of eminent scholars, including Professor Harold Ellens, of Michigan University, Drs Minna and Kenneth Lonnqvist, University of Helsinki, and many more, have come out and backed my central theory and the evidence is pilling up that there was indeed a connection from Amarna to the Second Temple Israelite period, and specifically to the Qumran-Essenes.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A recipe for vandalism,
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This review is from: Mystery Of The Copper Scroll Of Qumran (Paperback)
This is probably the only book I have ever read which was not only absolute fabrication but also responsible for the destruction of ancient monuments. The author has taken a bunch of half-digested theory about mythical items and fabricated a theory. While this might otherwise be only amusing, recent reports from archaeologists at the site of Akhenaten's capital city point out that a couple of the ancient boundary stela have been blown up by treasure hunters. (The book was abstracted in Arabic and published in one of Egypt's major newspapers). Although the author cannot be held directly responsible for this, his far-fetched theories are the direct inspiration for these vandals' acts.
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