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Copper Scroll Decoded

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The most significant book on Biblical history this century. There are so many goodies in this riveting book as soon as I had finished reading it I started re-reading it! Not only does the author demonstrate where incredible treasure listed in the Copper Scroll, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is hidden he goes on to come to some truly remarkable conclusions about the Old Testament. Ever since the finding of the Copper Scroll in 1952,in what was then part of Jordan and is now part of modern Israel, historians and archaeologists like John Allegro, Al Wolters, Geza Vermes, and Emile Puech have, it appears, been searching in the wrong places for the gold, silver and jewellery described in the Copper Scroll. Not only does the author convincingly show us how he has cracked the Greek coding letters in this 2,000 year-old Scroll, which have defied international scholars for nearly 50 years, he goes on to find some of the listed treasures. Perhaps the author's background in metallurgy has given him an edge in a world of linguists, dry academics and myopic historians. The ramifications of his 'findings' have led to conclusions, often hinted at by others, that Moses was in fact a Prince of Egypt, and that the origins of Judaism and by extension, Christianity and Islam are much more closely linked to Egypt through Pharaoh Akhenaten than has previously been acknowledged. I am aware of previous authors like John Spencer, Sigmund Freud, and more recently Jan Assmann, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg,who have made out a reasoned case for links between Moses and Akhenaten, but Feather seems to have come up with so many detailed 'hard' connections that it is difficult to dismiss them. If the author is correct, and I found his arguments powerfully compelling, he shows us the first ever image of the Biblical figure of Joseph and goes on to explain many puzzles in the Bible which seem to fall like clock-work into place in his new 'Egyptian' perspective. Written in an easily readable style of a detective story, the detailed referencing and Foreword by Professor George Brooke, of Manchester University - a world authority on Dead Sea Scroll research, underlines the apparent validity of this incredible work. If what the author says is essentially true, the book will necesitate a re-evaluation of the origins of the main Biblical stories, the history of the Qumran-Essenes - who wrote and possessed the Dead Sea Scrolls, and our present understanding of the ancient Hebrew Community at Elephantine Island in southern Egypt and the existence of the 'Falasha' Ethiopian Jews, - and become a standard work of reference.

I love the way Robert Feather writes, no theological confusion of philosophies here. I love the way he has put the pieces of his jigsaw puzzle together. Although you might not agree with all his conclusions he certainly presents a convincing argument. For anyone interested in our links to ancient Egypt, specifically with the 18th dynasty, who has an interest in the origins of the Bible stories and a fascination with the Dead Sea Scrolls, this book will certainly tantalize your enquiring tastebuds. And, there is treasure and a treasure hunt involved along side deeply spiritual teachings that have been found and lost and now in the 21st century found again. Perhaps the treasure is more in the teachings than in the gold.

A scholarly page-turner I couldn't put down. Establishes the links between the monotheism of Akenaten and Judaism. Unique among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the copper scroll lists the locations of priceless temple treasures, which Feather shows are hidden not in Judea, but in Akenaten's city, modern Tel-el-Amarna, Egypt. Only Egypt used copper and had the technology to rivet the thin copper plates together. Informative, readable and well-documented research. Feather is both a metalurgist and a scholar.