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I would emphasize that the following section is the most<br />

important part of my work. This is not only because the<br />

texts in the manuscript "The Teachings of Silvanus" prove<br />

that the fictitious Silvanus, i.e. the falsifiers, would have had<br />

knowledge of the <strong>Gospel</strong> of the <strong>Essenes</strong>, or about the contents<br />

of Book I, which was published in 1928. Those texts<br />

also represent the core element of the entire <strong>Gospel</strong> of <strong>Essenes</strong><br />

that the plagiarists kept secret until the conclusion of<br />

their forgery. In addition, they wanted to use the "Teachings<br />

of Silvanus" to replace the manuscript from the Essene<br />

<strong>Gospel</strong>, "The Book of the True Teacher." It was from this<br />

document that they extracted the specific language to compose<br />

the Teachings of Silvanus.<br />

The "Book of the True Teacher" is Book III of the <strong>Gospel</strong> of<br />

<strong>Essenes</strong>. This fact serves as proof that the Essene texts that<br />

refer to the Qumran writings are also authentic.<br />

But the high point of the document is that the fictitious Silvanus<br />

also corrected the most important quotation of Christianity,<br />

which we know from Isaiah 53 – a quotation that<br />

was falsified according to the method <strong>and</strong> the motives of the<br />

plagiarisms in the NT.<br />

The Teachings of Silvanus" is an 11-page work. About 80%<br />

of the entire text was extracted from the <strong>Gospel</strong> of <strong>Essenes</strong>.<br />

As already mentioned, the falsifiers partially distorted the<br />

positive texts into a negative sense, or employed synonyms<br />

<strong>and</strong> descriptions to conceal the source from which the texts<br />

were drawn. I have only compared a few sentences from this<br />

manuscript to the <strong>Gospel</strong> of <strong>Essenes</strong>. I believe, however, that<br />

these were sufficient to recognize an affinity between both<br />

texts.<br />

The Teachings of Silvanus also show that the forgers did not<br />

limit themselves to the <strong>Gospel</strong> of the <strong>Essenes</strong>. They also bor-<br />

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