Essenes Gospel and its falsification Dez 18
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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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