1992 Class On Messiah In The Dead Sea Scrolls

Since our Rabbi was absent and unable to give a sermon this past Shabbat (23 July), we offer this “blast from the past” for your listening pleasure and edification. Exactly thirty years ago this month, at the MJAA International “Messiah” Conference in July 1992, our Rabbi Bruce Cohen was asked to give a class sharing his aggressive first-hand research on the long-concealed, recently-released “Dead Sea Scrolls” fragments, the photo-facsimiles of which had just been published by Biblical Archaelology Review from the Bechtel Family Library, edited by Dr. Robert Eisenmann into a 2-Volume “scholars edition” of which Rabbi Bruce was one of the first possessors in the entire world. Rabbi Bruce had vigorously researched those newly-released treasures, event to chasing down Dr. Eisenmann by phone at his home in California to confirm the specific sense of the most hotly debated “Messiah-related” texts. The information Rabbi Bruce uncovered using his comparative literature education and expertise to dissect and verify is STILL revolutionary, three decades later. In this digitalized copy of a cassette tape made at that 1992 conference, you get to hear this news as it was breaking on the Two-Testament believing world. As the old radio show said it, “And you are there.” And we hope being there for this moment is an extraordinary and inspiring experience. Shalom!