1996 hardcover with dust jacket and 449 pages in very good condition.

Dr Robert Eisenman has done great service to humanity uncovering the Dead Sea Scols to humanity to be a true and a factual basis about the Essenes and he does not hide information that he discovers. He presents the Essac Brotherhood as best as he sees it and understands it, even when he does not fully understand the glossary that is used by the Essenes. In page 426 in the Glossary of the Hebrew terms, he includes the word "Da'at" which he defines as: " Knowledge, a basic concept at Qumran very much connected with the terminology of Is. 53:11 and the process of Justification generraly, in some vocabularies, "Gnosis" ". This gives full justification to the statement by Josephus in his work "Jewish Antiquities XV 371" where he states with respect to the Essenes: "This is a group which follow a way of life taught to the Greeks by Pythagoras." Da'at-Gnosis i=means that the Essenes are Gnostics and they follow the precepts of Primordial Gnosticism which is the only true way to God and and true Christianity. God is one for all people irrespective of race or color. Moses said "thy shall not kill,thy shall not covet your neibhors wife, thy shall not steal, thy shall not lie, etc......