Rate My Professor Robert Eisenman

Eisenman's research specializations encompass the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Christianity, Judeo-Christian origins, and Islamic law. As consultant to the Huntington Library in 1991-1992, he was instrumental in the decision to open its archives, providing free access to photographic copies of the previously unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls for all scholars. He has directed the Judean Desert Explorations/Excavations Project since 1988, conducting surveys, excavations, and radar groundscans at Qumran and surrounding areas. Key publications include Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel: A History of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari’ah (1978), Maccabees, Zadokites, Christians and Qumran: A New Hypothesis of Qumran Origins (1983), James the Just in the Habakkuk Pesher (1986), A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1989, co-authored with James M. Robinson), The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (1992, co-authored with Michael Wise), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians (1996), James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1997-1998), The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006), The New Jerusalem: A Millennium Poetic/Prophetic Travel Diario, 1959-1962 (2007), and James the Brother of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls I & II (2012-2013). In 2002, Eisenman was the first scholar to publicly announce the fraudulence of the James Ossuary.