Robert Eisenman is the author of The New Testament Code: The Cup of the Lord, the Damascus Covenant, and the Blood of Christ (2006), James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1998), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians (1996), Islamic Law in Palestine and Israel: A History of the Survival of Tanzimat and Shari'ah (1978), and co-editor of The Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1989) and The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered (1992).
He
is Emeritus Professor of Middle East Religions and Archaeology and the
former Director of the Institute for the Study of Judeo-Christian
Origins at California State University Long Beach and Visiting Senior
Member of Linacre College, Oxford. He holds a B.A. from Cornell
University in Philosophy and Engineering Physics (1958), an M.A. from
New York University in Near Eastern Studies (1966), and a Ph.D from
Columbia University in Middle East Languages and Cultures and Islamic
Law (1971). He was a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate
Hebrew Studies and an American Endowment for the Humanities
Fellow-in-Residence at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research
in Jerusalem, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first examined.