The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface

1 Conversations with Monsieur Jozef Milik
2 A Historical Canter through the Intertestamental Years (320 B.C.E. to 132 C.E.)
3 Scribblers, Squabblers, and Scholars
4 Perceived Dangers for the Church
5 Was Jesus a Real Person? The Literary and Other Sources
6 The Archaeological Evidence for Jesus’s Life
7 The Qumran Community’s Innermost Beliefs: Messianic Soldiers of Light
8 Messiahs of Qumran
9 The Teacher of Righteousness and Expectations of the End Days
10 Ethereal Melchizedek--and Kabbalah
11 Apocalypse Soon
12 A Community of Essenes--or Something Else?
13 Manuscripts of Contention
14 Gnosticism at Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
15 Quotations from the Christian Scriptures Derived from the Dead Sea Scrolls
16 Messianic Apocalypse, Son of God, and Pierced Messiah
17 Paul’s Smoking Gun
18 Beyond Paul
19 The Missing Years
20 Jesus, the Essenes, and the Gospels of the Christian Scriptures
21 John the Baptist Strides into View
22 Was John the Baptist a Member of the Qumran Community?
23 John’s Trademark: Ritual Immersion
24 John’s Ministry
25 Geographical Juxtapositions of Christian and Essene Settlements
26 Trial and Crucifixion
27 A Return Visit to Paris
28 The Search Begins
29 Fields of Death and Silence
30 The Excavations at Qumran
31 Years of Silence
32 Missing Bones
33 The Bones of John the Baptist
34 The Stone of Thorns
35 Facial Likenesses
36 Alternative Burial Sites for Jesus
37 Closing the Circle
38 The Holy Family in Egypt
39 The Qumran Essenes’ Presence at Amarna
40 Conclusions and Significance of the Discoveries

Appendix 1 1956 Letter from the Jerusalem Team and Allegro’s Response
Appendix 2 1956 Letter from John Allegro to Frank Moore Cross
Appendix 3 Yolanta Zaluska Milik’s Commentary
Notes
Scroll and Texts Glossary
General Glossary
Index