I read a great number of books but the one I have just finished and will have to read again many times --- the information is colossal and complex --- has been the most shattering  that possibly I have ever read in my life .
It is written by an Australian woman scholar named Barbara Thiering who has spent about 50years working with the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament .
No wonder the Dead Sea Scrolls is a taboo subject world wide .
The manuscript contents tear conventional Christian beliefs to shreds and  for  those that are committed believers the information is truly awful and outrageous .The problem that Christians will have if they ever dare take on Thiering is that there are no clashes or conflicts with the  New Testament Gospels and Acts once the principles of Peshar are explained and understood .This is a critical matter which is outside the scope of this Post

In it's simplest form the book  shows the political battles as Jews fought each other intellectually over succession and the role  Essenes made and took  in the development of what we have today -- a version of Christianity reshaped by the Apostle John and the zealot turned apostle Paul .
Jesus is an important figure but arguably John the Baptist was far more influential until his death  , and then  Jesus   vied to be King of Israel in the line of succession from David but Simon Magus vied to be Pope and for a time was .
Jesus , of course , was just a man and at the age of 36 ( AD 30) married Mary Magdalene . They had three children --- two sons and a daughter -- and possibly divorced later with Jesus taking a second wife .
Regardless , it confirms that Jesus was poisoned during his crucifixion but lived . When he was around the age of 70 ,  and not long after Peter and Paul were put to death in Rome , the family of Jesus moved to the south of France --- a story that has much support from many other separate sources but is outside the scope of this book . Jesus himself was last chronicled at 70 years of age and is assumed to have died from natural cause in Asia Minor as an apostle to the Gentiles .
It is impossible for the layman to argue with the book's contents because everything flows from the found manuscripts --- only someone who is a world scholar could question translation or interpretation .
However , the simple fact that nobody has ever tried to pull this woman's work to shreds is , in itself , most interesting .
The reaction from the Christian Church and the Vatican has been silence .
At a popular level there is attempted ridicule but that is understandable though irrelevant .
What an astonishing book of Scholarship and Revelation .

Рамон , никакого снотворного не надо , когда читаешь Тиринг.ИМХО.

Хэмингуэй "Праздник, который всегда с тобой"

Читала "Яму" и всего Куприна еще подростком, один из моих любимых писателей. Перечитываю.
И по ассоциации Стефана Цвейга "Нетерпение сердца", "Письмо незнакомки" и др новеллы.

Еще раз читаю Irvin Yalom "Lying on the Couch".

И еще-Диля Еникеева, разное, весело и грустно.

дед мазай и зайцы

Вижу вишневый сад, рядом с Анной Карениной.

12 стульев -  Остап вверху стоит со стулом.

"Нос" Гоголя.

и вижу мужика с топором точно из "Преступление и наказание"  Достоевского.