CONTENTS

Cover Image

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Illustration Credits

Foreword to the New Edition

Foreword to the First Edition

Chapter 1. The Copper Scroll – Two Thousand Years in Hiding

COINCIDENCE OR MIRACLE?

DATING THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

THE CONTENTS OF THE SCROLLS

WHO WERE THE QUMRAN-ESSENES?

Chapter 2. Bullion by the Billion

THE LANGUAGE OF THE COPPER SCROLL

DECIPHERING THE COPPER SCROLL

WHOSE TREASURES WERE THEY?

Chapter 3. Metallurgy and Metrology

GOLD AND SILVER

PROVENANCE OF THE COPPER SCROLL

ASPECTS OF ANCIENT COPPER TECHNOLOGY

NUMBERING AND WEIGHING SYSTEMS

A SECOND OPINION

Chapter 4. The Hebrew Tribes and Egypt

ABRAHAM

JACOB

JOSEPH

THE LEADERS OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

MOSES

OTHER POSSIBLE INFLUENCES ON THE HEBREWS

Chapter 5. The Cocooned Cauldron of Egypt – Hotbed of Civilization

EGYPT AND CREATION

INSTABILITY BRINGS NEW IDEAS

EGYPTIAN TEXTS AND THE BIBLE

DEATH AND THE AFTERLIFE

PUBESCENT MONOTHEISM

THE NEW KINGDOM AND RELIGION

Chapter 6. The Amenhotep Family Continuum

THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION

Chapter 7. Abraham – Father of Three Religions, Founder of None

THE ASCENT OF MAN

DATES OF THE PATRIARCHS

A COOKE’S TOUR OF MIDDLE EASTERN TIME

BACK ON COURSE

Chapter 8. Abraham at Pharaoh’s Palace

ABRAHAM MEETS PHARAOH

THE AFTERGLOW OF EGYPT

Chapter 9. Pharaoh Akhenaten – The King Who Discovered God

INTERPRETATIONS OF AKHENATEN’S ACTIONS

LINKS WITH JUDAISM

Chapter 10. Joseph – Prophet of Destiny

JOSEPH AND PHARAOH

A SURFEIT – THEN FAMINE

JACOB IS WELCOMED BY AKHENATEN

CROSS-FERTILIZATION OF IDEAS

DEATHS AND CATASTROPHE IN THE FAMILY

SO WHAT OF JOSEPH?

PHOTO INSERT

Chapter 11. The Long Trek South

ATEN IN HIDING

Chapter 12. Moses – Prince of Egypt

THE ARBEITWERKE

Chapter 13. The Exodus – Moses Does a Schindler

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

THE TABERNACLE

SACRIFICE

THE DNA FACTOR

EVIDENCE FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

MANETHO, MEYER AND MOSES

BACK TO THE COPPER SCROLL TREASURE

Chapter 14. Towards Qumran

THE LEVITE PRIESTS

PORTENTS OF DISASTER

EMERGENCE OF THE QUMRAN-ESSENES

A MODERN VIEWPOINT/SECOND OPINION

AKHENATEN’S HEIRS

ORIENTATIONS AT QUMRAN

LINKS WITH AKHETATEN

Chapter 15. The Lost Treasures of Akhenaten

CRACKING THE CODE OF THE COPPER SCROLL

THE TRANSLATIONS OF 3Q15 – THE COPPER SCROLL

THE FINAL HIDING PLACE

BACK TO THE BEGINNING OF THE TEXT

ON INTO ISRAEL?

ON INTO CANAAN?

MOUNT GERIZIM AND THE FINAL DESTINATIONS

Chapter 16. The Legacy of Akhenaten

ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE FROM THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

COMMUNITY RULES AND LIFESTYLE

THE MESSIANIC ‘SOLDIERS OF LIGHT’

MYSTICISM AND KABBALAH

THE QUMRAN-ESSENE CALENDAR

FESTIVALS AND JUBILEES

THE SCROLL OF MOSES’ BIBLICAL FATHER

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT

THE TEMPLE

SQUARING THE CIRCLE

THE LINKS FROM AKHENATEN TO THE QUMRAN-ESSENES

Chapter 17. Physical, Material and Technological Links Between Qumran and Akhetaten

WRITING MEDIA

TEXTILES

HYDROMECHANICS AND CLEANLINESS

Chapter 18. Egypt, Israel and Beyond – The Overlaying Commonalities

BEYOND THE ‘REED CURTAIN’

THE MUSICAL PSALMS

SOCIAL MORALITY

THE EGYPTIAN ‘WISDOM’ WRITINGS AND ARCHETYPE STORIES

EGYPTIAN INFLUENCES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT

STYLISTIC ASPECTS

THE BODY OF EVIDENCE

Chapter 19. Final Clues from the Copper Scroll – Elephantine Island and the Falashas of Ethiopia

ELEPHANTINE ISLAND IN THE ANCIENT LAND OF AB

THE ELEPHANTINE COMMUNITY

ELEPHANTINE ISLAND AND AKHETATEN

CUSH AND BEYOND TO LAKE TANA

TOMB KV55

A SEURAT OF POINTS TO COMPLETE THE PICTURE

Chapter 20. Academic and Scholarly Reaction

EXEGETISTS AND HISTORIOGRAPHERS

SUPPLEMENTARY EVIDENCE

FROM MOSES TO THE QUMRAN-ESSENES

IN THE KINGDOM OF THE BLIND. . .

THE TEMPLE

FOUND UNDER KANDO’S BED – THE TEMPLE SCROLL

THE COPPER SCROLL AND THE GREEK LETTERS THAT SPELL AKHENATEN

THE HEBREW-EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE LINK

SYMBOLS OF THE ATEN

SUMMATION

AppendixTranslation of the Copper Scroll

Glossary

Footnotes

Endnotes

Index

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