Forty-five years after their discovery, significant and controversial portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls remain inaccessible, guarded jealously by a small, scholarly elite. Now in this groundbreaking volume, controversial material is available for the first time. Compiled by scholars Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise, these fifty documents cast a startling light on events in Palestine at the dawn of Christianity. They portray not a family of peaceful Essenes but a fiercely militant religious sect whose members awaited an apocalyptic Day of Vengeance, The authors speak of a messiah and the resurrection of the dead. They allude not only to doctrines we now recognize as Christian but also to the precursors of Islam and Jewish Kabbalism. Providing precise transliterations into modern Hebrew characters and English translations, and accompanied by detailed commentaries, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered represents a quantum leap in our knowledge of the ancient origins of modern faith. [Eisenman and Wise] make their case with the utmost clarity and scholarship... The work is... patently thorough and careful... A picture of the ideological turmoil, fascinatingly intense, out of which Christianity sprang into the world." -- The Economist